Sgt Maj Thawee's Folklore Museum
A thoughtfully-designed little museum of exhibits from typical Thai village life, including the buffalo-castration equipment and methodology (ouch!) In one of the rooms, one of the groundsmen muttered something in Thai to me, and an elderly fellow inside switched on the lights in the room. I didn't really pay attention to him, and saw that the descriptions on the exhibits were mostly in Thai, so I moved on quite quickly. It was only later when I compared the old man to the photographs in the newspaper articles near the entrance that I realised he was Sgt Maj Thawee himself! Guess that's was what the groundsman was trying to tell me! Clearly my Thai still needs A LOT of work...
A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more 
