Sport for Health

Thailand's landscape is ideal for outdoor sport

For mental and physical challenge, creative stimulation and contact with nature, there's nothing like outdoor sport.

The enjoyment, stimulus and social rewards of sporting competition should never be overlooked. Whether you're competing against yourself or an opponent, it adds an element of fun as well as challenge.

As in any other productive activity, setting goals for ourselves and maintaining a realistic outlook about our abilities and limitations are all-important when playing sport. The principles of traditional Oriental medicine prescribe balancing our energy forces. Taking part in sport with endeavour and concentration is a way of brining that same sense of harmony to our lives.

So when we welcome visitors to Thailand, we are welcoming you to a land where you can exploring the country's natural beauty in the pursuit of healthy activity, refreshing and rejuvenating the mind, body and spirit within a tradition of nature healing and healthcare developed and refined over centuries.

The green and blue of Thailand's diverse natural environment is a perfect arena of nearly every sport you can think of.

Golf enthusiasts will immediately see on obvious advantage of this diversity: Opportunities for playing this intense game of skill and concentration on well-maintained courses in every kind of natural setting.

Wherever you travel in Thailand, you are never far from a golf course. There are more than 160 ranging from small nine-hole affairs to the many superbly-landscaped golf courses designed by world famous golfing personalities like Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, and Robert Trent Jones.

But the sports activities this exotic country has to offer hand in hand with the beautiful natural surrounding extend far beyond well-manicured greens.

Here are some of sports you can practice the mind, use your inner strength to achieve your goal - a wise way to gain a healthy lifestyles as an added reward to your visit.

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