Many people visit Thailand each year, it’s become a very popular holiday destination, not just for backpacking students on their gap year following the hippy trail of their parents, but as a mainstream holiday destination, especially for Australians and also for Europeans despite the long-haul flight times. It’s a number of years since I’ve visited the country, although my husband Peter and I did so both for business and for leisure many times between the 1970s and 2010. Its culture of music and dance is a fascinating mixture of Chinese, Khmer and Indian due to its location in the southern part of mainland Asia. The musical instruments are similarly a mixture from the three cultures. This group perform some traditional Thai Music and dance.