Hello! "Sawadee Khap!" Welome to my Thailand page

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I was up late one evening  watching a movie on cable  "The Legend of Suriyothai ®2003" an Epic 16th-century history of the war between Burma and Thailand. I was very impressed and intrigued with the culture, history and architecture.
 

By my second trip to Thailand I knew I was never going to be away from this amazing place for long.  The language isn't easy but if you stick with it, you catch on after a little while, by a third trip. At least enough to travel around.

Lucky for me, with friends like Aoy, Noot, Sunin and Chow I can be somewhat incompetent.

 

 

 
Muang tam locally referred to as "Queens palace"
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Typical market place.		  
Nong nooch, I've been here a few times and it's always great
 
Big Buddha		  
A very nice video of koh Samed and Koh Chang

 

 

 

Aoy Chamrum in traditional Thai attire.
 

I am just going to bulk post the lot of these photos or it's going to take me weeks.

 
     
   
     




Aoy, at Muang Tam built 900AD not far from where we encountered the Pit Viper a fairly intimidating and overly dramatic snake. 
I am sure Aoy ran screaming in olympic form to get help for me, surly not just to save herself? maybe to get a stick or something.. Honey you are coming back? Sometimes I could swear she speaks a different language, crazy Thai girl.


Exhibit 1: Popes Pit Viper capable of repeat strikes up to 1 meter in length, perfect for any Indiana Joneseque  excursion, much much more exciting then the sea snake encountered on Koh Samet Island that thing was pathetic. Seriously this is one quick and evil snake. I walked away smiling thinking, that could have turned south. One of those rare moments when everything goes your way or maybe snakes just don't like me. It's Thai name is apperently  "It bite you die" according to Aoy who really really hates snakes.... 

 

A cow sneaks in with the buffalo: as far as I could tell she went undetected.

Rush Hour Traffic in Buriram, on my second trip I spent 5 days in a Buriram village in NE Thailand
a very quiet and friendly place with a fairly laid back simple way of life, I was surrounded by curious
smiling people. 
 

 
Returning with rice noodles from her mother, Aoy has taught me a lot about cooking with 
fresh herbs and vegetables. 
Food is a huge part of life and meals are a gathering everything is shared.


Dryden I found after returning home loves spiced foods and rice who knew, before I couldn't get him to eat any variety of
items in the veg or fruit group aside from green beans and lemons bleh what a weirdo. Now he's changed a lot of his habits this year in fact he's very willing to try most anything.


One thing all travelers to Asia agree on, they miss the food on returning home. 
it's really cool when food alone is adventure

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