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Be very wary of cab drivers that 1) want to give you "city tours" 2) try to convince you that it's some special holiday or 3) want to take you around for too cheap to be true prices (hard to judge sometimes since everything is so darn cheap already). Most likely they will take you to a (fake) precious stones store (whose owner is in cohorts with the driver) and pressure you to buy something, saying that there's a special sale because it's some national holiday. Sometimes there are huge intimidating men present.... Whatever you do, don't buy them. Better yet, don't get in cab in the first place
When I first heard about these scams i thought, this was too elaborate to be a widespread thing, but when for the two days I was in Bangkok, it happened twice. Luckily I was there with a friend who knew what was going on and made us walk away before anything happened.
Scuba diving on some of the islands in southern Thailand is amazing too, if you have the time. Transportation to and from the island plus hotel is amazingly cheap, and diving fees are also cheap.
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