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Asia » Thailand » North-East Thailand » Surin November 18th 2007

Sunday November, 18th 2007 Sunday at 5:30 A.M. is the day the elephant semi-marathon. So, Martin (the guy I met at Nang Rong) and I were quite excited to see a herd elephants running at full speed. So, I try to wake up early to be on time for this terrific event. When the alarm-clock rang, I fel back to sleep. I woke up at 5:15 and I walk and run for one hour to reach the outskirt of the city where the competition was taking place. There were no cyclo or moto-taxi that early Sunday morning. I was angry that I was late. Then, I finally arrived and that's what I saw. I looked at the leaflet : Elephant town semi-marathon. It means Surin semi marathon. I had to laugh my head off; such a ... read more

Light and sound at Srikhoraphun

Asia » Thailand » North-East Thailand » Surin November 17th 2007

Srikhoraphun

CTM

Saturday November, 17th 2007 Srikhoraphun est à 1 heure de bus de Surin. Sans nous être concertés, je retrouvai Martin à la station de bus. Le temple Prasat Srikhoraphun est assez joli. Pour la première fois cette année, la commune organisait un dîner-spectacle son et lumière. Ce fut un très joli spectacle qui retraçait notamment l’histoire du site. Assez surprenant pour un touriste comme moi fut de voir le gouverneur de la province de Surin monter sur scène dans le cadre du spectacle pour présenter la période actuelle. Ensuite, le spectacle se poursuivit. Il faut dire que nous sommes en pleine période électorale en Thaïlande. Cerise sur le gateau, le retour des touristes fut assuré par des véhicules de la Commune de Srikhoraphun gracieusement mis à notre disposition. Heureusement, car il n’y avait pas l’air d’y ... read more

Third Thai Lucky - Crouching with Tigers .......

Asia » Thailand » North-East Thailand » Surin December 1st 2006

Dennis Thatchers entry to this years Paris-Dakar rally could be even more comical than we thought

Gee n Nat

We had no time to mope about leaving Laos for the last time as we had to head to Surin, North East Thailand, for the annual elephant round-up. After a brief and unmemorable over-nighter in Ubon Ratchathani, spent at the local night markets eating food, we arrived in Surin. The elephant round-up is hugely popular with tourists from all over Thailand, as well as the rest of the world so we had rang in advance to book our accommodation. Suffice to say, when we arrived they had no idea we were coming, although they had a free room anyway. Infact it was not a 'free' room, but a room priced at double the usual rate for the festival, a fact they seemed particularly pleased to keep telling us! The next 2 days were surreal; elephants were ... read more

The tribute to Van Gough was in bad taste, especially with the big ears and all!

This years trialists for Miami Highs cherleaders were just not up to scratch!

Both players step up to the ochy, dumbo to throw first ....

elephant festival

Asia » Thailand » North-East Thailand » Surin November 18th 2006

big foot

frisian traveler

What to say about BANGKOK...well, it's a ratrace really. Especially when you decide to stay on kao san road. Apparently, there was a chinese festival of some kind, so a procession of dragons and the likes went through kao san. They had a metal frame with a pole, in wich 10 or so people climbed who hooked themselves up. Then the dragon came circling around the pole wich was hooked up on the watersupply and out the water came. In the meantime somebody was lighting fireworks, one of those 1000 BANGERS or something, wich they had hung on a balcony right behind me. So when it started to go off, i almost shit my pans. Then they went on to make a human pyramid, the further up they went, the younger the people. So it ended ... read more

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