City break in Pattaya. Active leisure ideas for Pattaya - attractions, recreation and nightlife

Pattaya is the most buzzing and vivacious resort of the country. The resort area is of great popularity among beach recreation fans and hot parties addicts. However apart from numerous clubs and dance floors the city of Pattaya offers its guests many attractive places for family recreation. The territory of the city as well as its suburbs locates numerous marvelous parks, gardens of ultimate beauty and stunning nature reserves. A beautiful tropical botanical garden named Nong Nooch is a must visit place during a vacation in Pattaya. The garden stuns its visitors with plenty of exotic flowers and originality of presented floristic compositions.

The most interesting and most visited zoological park of the resort can justly be called the Khao Kheow park. Its inhabitants live in spacious enclosures which reproduce their natural environment. The zoological park takes a vast territory and features a great collection of animals. Another interesting wildlife destination in Pattaya is the Safari World zoological park being the best place to get acquainted with wild representatives of local fauna.

The Sriracha Tiger Zoo of Pattaya invites tourists to watch graceful and haughty royal Bengal tigers, awesome crocodiles and giant elephants. Every day the park holds interesting excursions for its guests. Pattaya is a place of location of the largest in the country park of attractions named the Dream World. The park will be of great pleasure and admiration for active leisure fans offering a great choice of attractions and playing grounds. The park is a perfect place to spend a day there. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

Many tourists, however, are attracted to Pattaya by numerous scenic beaches which are still the main spots of leisure and recreation. Tourists visiting Pattaya with kids should better set to the Jomtien Palm Beach offering calm and clear sea to enjoy. A central beach of the resort is the Pattaya Beach. Its length is about 3km. Many restaurants, shopping and entertaining centers, night clubs, bars and dance floors are accumulated in this area. Tourists tending to solitude, privacy and quieter rest will love the Naklua Beach.

A visit to Pattaya will not be complete without visiting of local shops and markets. The Floating Market has turned to a real local landmark. The market place was artificially created and presents a complex of small houses and boats. Numerous concessions offer unique articles, crafts, dressings and memorable souvenirs. The largest shopping centers and brand clothes boutiques are located in the Beach Street. The Second Road also presents a dense accumulation of boutiques, souvenir shops and stores.