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    Photos - Rural Korat

    I like to take a few ordinary snaps of rural Korat when I'm riding my bicycle. Here are a few.....

    The rice fields look really nice and green this year. Plenty of water.



    Typical rice field shelter.



    I like the look of this straw-roofed sala and nearby haystack.



    Construction on this simple wat started about a year ago. I like to return now and then to check on progress. This is the first time I've visited with a monk there.



    Here's a pair of home made spirit houses, typical of what you find in the countryside.



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    Ah, these are spirit houses. I always thought they were bird houses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fabian
    Ah, these are spirit houses. I always thought they were bird houses.
    Perhaps you're right. I believe I do see a nest in the one on the left....

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    Nice pics buadhai. I must take a trip up there one day; maybe next year....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    I must take a trip up there one day; maybe next year....
    Better hurry. It's changing fast....

    Nah. Be like this for ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buadhai
    Better hurry. It's changing fast.... Nah. Be like this for ever.
    Couple of months it will look like a desert, everywhere always looks better in rainy season....unless its flooded of course

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    Actually this part of Korat stays pretty green. The river runs through it which accounts for all the ancient sites like Sema, Phimai, Phanom Wan, etc. But, during the dry season you don't have to go far for the desert look.

    Lam Takhong River:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    Nice pics buadhai. I must take a trip up there one day; maybe next year....
    huh..

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    Don't worry GoW, boys night out in rural Korat is not as dangerous as it might sound.

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    ^There's always some thing to do though eh?
    Looks Great. Nice pics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buadhai
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    Don't worry GoW, boys night out in rural Korat is not as dangerous as it might sound.
    Actually I don't mean this but maybe I used wrong word.

    What I meant is, it's properly not next year, it would be in the next 3-4-5 years or never.


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    Korat is a fun place to visit when a local shows you around.
    I've done it and it was a great 2 days of simple pleasures.

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    great pics thanks for sharing

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    no more countryside for me, I am sick and tired of that.

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    Same here, yaba-whores at Thermae are more fun, for sure.
    Darn, why did I ever move into the sticks?
    They can't even speak Thai 'round here, stupid peasants.

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    Always enjoy seeing Pictures of Areas i would like to visit some day.
    Keep on posting them.

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    I really like these hand-made wooden cow bells. They each have a different tone and it sounds so great when a herd with many such bells walks by.

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    Beating The Heat

    This young lady and her Dad sometimes cool off by climbing inside these giant water pots. Her Dad is a lot bigger than her and declined to be photographed!


    Rice straw haystacks.


    This old semi-mechanized rice mill is still in use.


    This home made spirit house was recently discarded in one of the spirit house graveyards near my house. Oddly, someone still adds flowers on wan phra.


    Another Nice Wooden House

    This house is not far from where we live but was hidden behind an overgrown garden including many big trees. The garden was recently cleared to reveal this lovely wood house that is in surprisingly good shape after being unoccupied for quite some time.


    Rachapruk Tree

    The Golden Shower Tree is the national flower of Thailand. They bloom in the hot summer months of March and April. It's also known as Indian Laburnum. This one is located in the temporary camp used by the workers building homes in Homeland II.

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    I have one of those trees in a park just around the corner...very beautiful.

    Bout bloody time you posted more pics

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    AC, thanks for posting the picture of the Golden Shower Tree.

    Have them all over the place here and wondered what they were.

    E. G.

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    I pass this nice pond every day on my morning run and pretty much every time I bike or drive anywhere else. It's a very healthy pond and has beautiful big water lilies in it that bloom most of the year. For a while earlier this year there was a crew camped out there fishing, but the owner posted big "no fishing" signs (ham jap sat anm) and now they are gone, leaving the pond in peace again.






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