A taste of Thailand
This popular fried rice noodle dish is often served with crushed peanut, bean sprouts and a squeeze of lime
What is Pad Thai?
These dangerous, powerful channels of fast moving water flow straight away from the shore and are the number one safety hazard for swimmers
What are rip tides?
This eight armed marine creature is famous for its intelligence and its ability to squirt ink to escape predators
What is an octopus?
Thailand is located on this major continent
What is Asia?
This massive, rainforest-covered destination in the Andaman sea is the largest island in Thailand and a world-famous holiday hotspot.
What is Phuket?
Thai cuisine is famous for balancing five flavours: slaty, sweet, sour and this hot sensation commonly brought by bird eye chillies
What is spicy?/ heat?
White sand beaches look beautiful, but much of that sand is tropical regions is actually made from the crushed up remains of this rocky underwater structure
What is coral?/ coral reef?
While they look like plants these colourful underwater structures are actually colonies of tiny luring animals that fish love to live in
What is coral?
This large gentle mammal is the national symbol of Thailand and is highly respected in Thai culture.
What is an elephant?
This stunning archipelago features a beach made famous by Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie. The beach, and its name sounds like a letter of the Greek alphabet repeated twice.
This refreshing, hard shelled tropical fruit provides both clear wafter to drink and white milk used in Thai curries
What is a coconu?
This natural ocean debri- made of green or brown kelp, shells, and driftwood- is left behind on the sand in a distinct line marking the highest point the waves reached.
What is the high tide line?/ what is seaweed line?
This giant ocean mammal is the largest known to have ever lived on earth
What is the blue whale?
This bustling city is the capital is the capital and largest metropolis of Thailand.
What is Bangkok?
Known as ‘Turtle island’ in Thai, this small island in the gulf of Thailand is one of the most popular places in the world to get scuba diving certified.
What is Koch Tao?
This yellow, sweet and tropical fruit is famously served warm with sticky rice and coconut milk
What is mango sticky rice?/ what is a mango?
If you look closely at beach sand under a magnifying glass, most of the clear glass-like crystals you see are made of this common mineral, which is also used to make window glass
What is quartz?/what is silica?
This slow moving reptile spends its life in the ocean but must crawl onto sandy beaches to lay eggs.
What is the sea turtle?
This is the primary currency used to pay for goods and food in Thailand.
What is the Thai Baht?
Meaning ‘Island of Nails’, this famous rock spire in Phang Nga Bay became a global landmark after being featured in the 1974 James Bond movie ‘The man with the Golden Gun’
What is James Bond island?/ What is Koch Tapu?
Thailand is one of the world’ top exporters of this staple grain, particularly the fragrant ‘jasmine’ variety
What is rice?
Famous beaches in places like Hawaii or Iceland have striking, completely black sand because the sand was formed from the weathering of this specific type of volcanic rock.
What is basalt/ what is lava rock?
This specific type of fish became globally famous in 2003 when he got lost and his dad had to find him.
What is Nemo?/ what is a clownfish?
Instead of shaking hands, people in Thailand greet each other with this slight bow with their palms pressed together in a prayer-like gesture.
What is the Wai?
This vibrant island in south-east Thailand is globally famous for its massive, monthly electronic music festival named after this specific phase of the moon.
What is Koh Phangan?