About Hua Hin
Hua Hin
history Shortly after World War I, 1920s
Since The Southern Railroad was constructed to give people
opportunities to travel overland all the way to the
Malaysian border, the beach of Hua Hin has enjoyed a solid
reputation as "the famous seaside resort of Siam" where
visitors could enjoy swimming, fishing, and golfing on the
sountry's first standard course (Hua Hin Royal Golf Course)
during the weekends.
Hua Hin's rise came with the opening of the Railway Hotel
(Hotel Sofitel Central), after the Southern line was
completed. It was an elegant Victorian structure on the
shore with vast rooms, private verandah, fancy gretwork
decoration and wickerwork chairs in the lounge.
Soon afterwards a first complex of bungalows (Central Hua
Hin Village) was built together with a Victorian-style
gazebo on a scenic group of rocks near Hua Hin Village, and
this place, later, was selected as a venue in the film "The
Devil's Paradise", as well as the Railway Hotel, which
portrayed Phnom Penh's leading hotel in the hectic days just
before that city's fall in the film "The Killing Fields".
Nowadays, among the development of the world, Hua Hin's
pleasures are still placid, not all that different, indeed,
from those enjoyed by the aristocratic visitors of its past.
That's Hua Hin - the oldest beach resort of Siam with a
sense of history and peaceful but scenic atmosphere. That's
beloved Hua Hin
