Ko Kret: Bangkok's best-kept secret

By Steve McKenna
Updated May 24 2016 - 11:14am, first published 10:47am
Ko Kret's Big Buddha. Photo: iStock
Ko Kret's Big Buddha. Photo: iStock

Imagine breakfasting in the urban jungle of Bangkok, then, an hour or so later, you're cycling past luxuriant green fields and palm-tree-lined canals, sleepy stilt villages and ornate temples. Birdsong and rooster cries pierce the serene, steamy air, radiant butterflies flutter before your eyes and pollution-spewing cars and buses are conspicuous by their absence. This isn't a dream. You can actually enjoy this pastoral idyll – without flying anywhere.

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