Buriram doesn’t appear in most Thailand travel writing. There’s no backpacker infrastructure, no place in the standard itinerary, and almost no quality English-language information about a province with a world-class motorsport circuit, a dominant football club, two of the most impressive Khmer temple complexes outside Cambodia, and a way of life that most visitors to Thailand never encounter.
That’s part of why this site exists. The other part is simpler: I find Buriram genuinely fascinating, and I want more people to know about it.
Buriram sits outside the mainstream Thailand travel market — it’s not a place most visitors search for, which is probably why almost nothing useful has been written about it in English. A site like this doesn’t make obvious commercial sense. It exists because the place is worth writing about anyway.
The person behind it
I’m based in the UK. My wife is Thai — from the Buriram and Surin border area, from a part of rural Isaan that most outsiders don’t know exists. We have land near Krasang, in Buriram province, that we’re slowly developing.
My connection to Buriram isn’t a two-week trip with a camera. It’s family visits, long stays, markets where the smell of pla ra hits you before you’ve seen the stall, conversations in villages where the first language isn’t Thai. It’s watching what actually happens in a Thai province beyond the tourist trail, and building a picture of a place over years rather than days.
That’s the foundation everything on this site is built on.
What the site covers
A growing library of articles covering the full picture of the province:
- Sport — Buriram United FC and MotoGP at Chang Circuit, two world-class venues in an unlikely corner of Isaan
- Temples and history — Phanom Rung, Mueang Tam, Wat Khao Angkhan, and the Khmer heritage that runs through northeast Thailand
- Getting here and getting around — flights, trains, buses, car hire: everything needed to reach and navigate Buriram
- Accommodation — where to stay in the city, near the circuit, and beyond
- Expat life — visas, banking, cost of living, land ownership: practical detail for anyone considering a longer stay
- Land and living — the villages, food, wildlife, festivals, and quieter rhythms that make Isaan worth understanding
Beyond articles
Alongside the content, I’m building tools that are genuinely useful: an interactive map of the province’s key locations, and a live Buriram United fixture and results tracker. The aim is for buriram.live to be something you actually use, not just read once and leave.
A note on links
Running a site like this takes considerably more time than it probably looks. There are hosting costs, image licences, and a lot of hours spent on research and writing — all for a region that, for now, most of the English-speaking world hasn’t discovered yet.
Some links on this site are affiliate links — if you book or buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. It helps cover the costs of keeping the site going. I try to link to options that are genuinely useful, but it’s always worth comparing alternatives before you commit.
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