Jade Keller

While Thais might not spend the winter holidays sledding in snow or kissing whiskies by the fire, they are generally a fun-loving nation of people who welcome any excuse for a party and Christmas is no exception. Thai people happily take up any opportunity to indulge in more festive, twinkling lights. Despite the tropical climes, Christmas trees abound — the plastic kind, of course— and the bigger and brighter, the better. Surprisingly, Old St.