Thread: Phitsanulok, Nakon Sawan, Lopburi Run July 2014

On the wall was some Thai Graffiti, could not quite work out what they where on about though.

One must be careful not to fall down one of these man traps.

Thai occupational health and safety at work here. No one would be surprised if that nasty white wire was packing current Eh.

In all of my years of traveling Thailand I can safely say that Caravans ain't a common sight, surprised to see this one. Perfect for a cafe on the river though.

The Tourist center. Mighty impressive wooden building, have a look at the width of those planks. Been there forever and maybe Teak-wood, worth a squillion.

The Tourist building, the Sala and end building is the coffee shop. Impressive stuff right there.

I'm still following the river, on the left side rear near the large white building is the night market. On the river bank is restaurants and a guest house.

This looked like a great spot to drop your bag for the night, similar to Kanchanaburi minus the floating barges blaring out crap music.

Brilliant these floating restaurants, Mainly all local punters.

Restaurants all along this river opposite the markets.

Great spot at night time.

Someones house complete with satellite dish.

Next door neighbor, awesome EH.

So I keep walking down towards the markets and pass the amulet buyers.

Amulets are big business in this town.

After walking around all day I found the riverside night markets and bars.Nice spot here.

Extensive night market this one, it was full of punters later that night. Mainly shopping though, the bars seemed quite empty. Crank up in the later hours I Suppose.

Turned out I was back near my Hotel so went home got cleaned up and back to the market for a feed and a few beers. Hanging with all my mates.

Night time I kick back edit the days photos and knock the head from a few Chang classics. 6% of course.

Very nice Terry.

Do you have a GPS?

If not you should get one. Just select 'Historical sites' or whatever and it brings them all up in order of closeness. Perfect for trips like these.

I like to have a beer but I'm a light weight really, Two big boys and I'm done. So its off home and into the local food market just before it closed.

Finished off this nice plate of soup and off home to bed. That's day one done. More tomorrow.

Originally Posted by DBell

Do you have a GPS?

If not you should get one. Just select 'Historical sites' or whatever and it brings them all up in order of closeness. Perfect for trips like these.

Every time I hire a car I rent one but now I'm retired I am going buy my own for the next trip.

I'll stick with Garmin, always use my Garmin at home in Perth, its brilliant. Had it quite a few years now.

I will buy a Garmin Nuvi 42, Cost 4 K. Well worth it.

Originally Posted by terry57

Originally Posted by DBell

Do you have a GPS?

If not you should get one. Just select 'Historical sites' or whatever and it brings them all up in order of closeness. Perfect for trips like these.

Every time I hire a car I rent one but now I'm retired I am going buy my own for the next trip.

I'll stick with Garmin, always use my Garmin at home in Perth, its brilliant. Had it quite a few years now.

I will buy a Garmin Nuvi 42, Cost 4 K. Well worth it.

Agree, I only have a cheap one I bought a few years ago here. Garmin 3500 or something. Anyway, time to get the updated map, it's still on the original 2010 map, think you can get the latest year's model put onto it for less than 1k baht. Fantastic when out and about adventuring some place new in a country chock full of historical temples etc.

Originally Posted by terry57

These I found interesting, not to many Thai towns around that still use this form of transport. Heaps of them in the town, could of been in Vietnam.

Tons of these in Udon Thani. I think they are pretty cool as well.