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EST. BANGKOK · MEMBER-OWNED WINNER · TRIPADVISOR 2025

Bangkok,
by people who
actually live here.

We don't run tours. We invite you home — to the temples we grew up at, the noodle stalls our grandmothers swear by, and the alleys cab drivers refuse to enter. Tiny groups. Real stories. No flag-and-megaphone nonsense.

4.96 / 5 · 847 reviews Small groups · max 8 Free cancellation

An insider's look
at a city you thought you knew.

Every guide is born or raised in Bangkok. They cook, they pray, they argue with motorbike taxis. They take you to the same places they'd take a visiting cousin — only with better stories.

Born here, not trained here

No call-and-response scripts. Our guides grew up two soi away from the temples they're showing you.

Eight people. Max. Period.

No coach buses. No headsets. Just enough people that everyone can ask a question and still hear the answer.

1 in 20 vendors make the cut

We taste-test every stall, every season. If a place coasts on tourist traffic, it's out by next quarter.

Money stays in the neighborhood

No middlemen. No commission farms. Your booking pays our guides, our vendors, and a little for keeping the lights on.

WHO WE ARE

A locally-rooted company run by Bangkokians.

Folkpaths started in 2019 because three of us were sick of watching tourists get bused around our city, miss everything we love about it, then leave saying it was "fine."

We're a small team — eleven guides, two photographers, one accountant who really wishes we'd spend less on noodles. We deliver with a global mindset and we get the language right, but the soul of this thing is local.

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The people who came back happy.

847 reviews. 4.96 average. We read every single one. Then we argue about them at lunch.

★★★★★
"Nine days in Bangkok, and this was the only thing that didn't feel like a transaction. Our guide brought us to a noodle shop her grandmother opened in 1962. The grandmother was there. She smacked me for using the wrong spoon. Best meal of my life."
EM
Elena M.
Barcelona · China Town walk
★★★★★
"Was prepared to hate the Grand Palace tour — too touristy, too crowded. Nope. Pim got us in before the buses, told us about the murals like she'd lived inside them, and then took us for the iced coffee her uncle makes. Booked another walk for the next day."
JK
James K.
Melbourne · Grand Palace
★★★★★
"The cat tour sounds like a gimmick. It isn't. Wat Pho at sunset, twelve cats, one monk who used to be a rock musician, and a ghost story I'm still not over. Tell everyone."
SR
Sofia R.
Berlin · Temple cats
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Come walk with someone who lives here.

Reserve in two minutes. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before. We'll send a short voice note from your guide the day before — that's how we like to say hello.

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