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Fun in Buriram!

Khmer influence in restored temple

Buriram is a province in Thailand located in the Northeast near Laos and Cambodia. It has a mixture of Lao and Khmer (Cambodia) people, traditions and cultural influences.

You can see the province at the bottom of the image just above Cambodia
in addition to tradition, this province has probably the best known soccer team and soccer field.
Kids playing in the field
Khmer influenced architecture. This looks like an abandoned temple
Khmer influence inside this old temple
I am not sure what this is. Didn’t ET already return home?
in Kao Kradong volcanic crater and park.
Pigs heads ready for pick up
The entrance to a temple from the main road
This robot delivers your food to your table. The only problem I saw is that it gets in the way of the waiters taking orders and talking with customers and seems to cause quite a few traffic jams. This doesn’t seem to be a really effective implementation of R2 D2.
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The last of the comics

the temple HULK

it was a great idea visiting this temple and I hope that you get a chance to also spend a few hours to enjoy all of the images, but you have to travel to Bangkok

a new addition under construction
when you sit down quietly in front of these images I don’t see how you can be described as doing anything else except meditating.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch (Koh Chang island)

Angelo has a Italian restaurant which now, due to lack of customers from Covid, focuses on pizza and PANZEROTTO. He is the kind of fellow you want to know if you want to learn how to be a good chef and how to make people happy with food. He makes something called PANZEROTTO, the only place on the island it’s available. If you really enjoy the food and tell him how much you like it he will most likely give you a complementary apéritif, possibly one you have never tried before. I recommend Trattoria & Pizza kohchang in Lonely Beach.

A new waterslide for the kids just opened recently
do you remember the movie “don’t eat the daisies”? If you do you are old like me. I also recommend not to eat this plant
“this is how you do it!”
My leaning tower of yogurt cups. I’m not quite sure why I am collecting them
Getting nude at the local convenience store
My two guard dogs doing their job, tigger and thief. Thief got her name after she kept going into my room, pulling stuff out of the garbage and spreading it around outside. I finally trained her not to go in the room but I still call her “thief”.
A mini Ducati?
A very nice decoration for the van from my favorite pizzeria, Babylon. If you like thin, crispy, sourdough flavor crust this is the place to go.
It’s not quite the car I expected “odd job” to jump out of but it is a nice vintage
Just read the sign. And, by the way, this is where I had my tooth pulled, the one that broke due to rocks in the rice at a certain restaurant (tiny rocks)
Protecting the elemental protecting tee pee from the elements. But the elements get you if you have to go pee pee.
cicio is a very “active” guard dog?
Have to go back to work at the pool table at red monkey. Can’t be lazy all my life. “what’s the winning streak score Paul?” Actually we just make it up each time we get back to there to play
Deep fried squid rings at one of my favorite restaurants, “eat here”, nice name for a restaurant.

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Let’s get serious about Serious Temples

in Udon Thani there is a very nice temple in the middle of the city with some very interesting surroundings and architecture, Wat Pothisomphon

Even the HQ has a very nice design
Remember the does and don’ts at temples
Assembly hall
got work to do
The main pagoda (stupah)
Stuck in the middle with you
Every picture tells a story, don’t it?
A Snaking view
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Bangkok on a dime, or 2, or 3, or 4, or …..

hi tech central control next to the bed. Great idea for a hotel
Love at first bite
Sunan buying durian. Alain and I demur and let her eat our portions as well. We are being polite?
the authoritarians. of what?
OK there was a saxophone but I was too busy to notice since I talking with Alain who I hadn’t seen for so many years
I was wondering if these are earthquake proof
“Hey! Don’t go away. We have some more food to eat.”
I see fisherman’s wharf has moved to terminal 21
Honey, they shrank the bridge!
This reminded me of the windy day when mom was driving our Volkswagen Square back across the Golden Gate Bridge and the wind picked it up and moved it into the lane to the left. A little bit out of control we were.
Support our brave bridge builders!
The walkway of pretty lights
I asked about the sign and found it really means if you buy one for 1,000 baht you get three T-shirts in total
so is it 21,000 to own it or to push the button?
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Comic Temple? Partly!

temples are held in reverence for their religious sanctity. This temple in Bangkok, Wat Pariwat Ratchasongkram, has a little different bent on expression, enlarging it to include modern attractive icons to highlight inclusive of Buddhism. Just look at the photos and you will understand everything. I took so many photos so I’m splitting it into several PHLOGS. It would take several hours walking around this temple area to identify every icon.

You can see that people have placed gold leaf on this image
Under construction
Money for construction seems to be rolling in
modern architecture in contrast
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Bangkok is interesting, if you notice everything.

In Chinatown there is a very special restaurant with some very special food, Dragon Cafe
I hope they don’t break down this pillar
In terminal 21 there are some very decorative lights
Warp speed to San Francisco
Reminds me when I was a kid with plastic models
some old buildings in Chinatown
Just in case you want to know how long to boil an egg. From multiple perspectives and possibly from different universes
Free breakfasts served in the room
Some motorcycles are not new, surprise
Alain comes back from Saudi so we go to see a saxophone which never appears. Notice he is making a point or maybe just pointing or maybe just joking or maybe…..
Hot pot hot pot hot pot
Everybody loves DURIAN except for those who don’t. It seems to be love or hate
a different restaurant in Chinatown serves very nice Shanghai noodles and seaweed salad, and different kinds of GYOZA as well, 168 Gyoza
A good suggestion, take a photo of old buildings I want a photo of and I will take a photo of but I take a photo of somebody taking a photo. It’s OK, he’s a returnee so he follows orders
Check the photos and wait for lunch. Sunan is so hungry she is eye eating somebody else’s food

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NOT Missing the miscellaneous

A good bowl of noodles in the morning helps get the stomach moving, especially when you’re waiting for your motorcycle to receive proper maintenance at the Honda shop
Bangkok downtown from the air
Adding a new Buddhist sticker to my motorcycle
TONKATSU. Sometimes Japanese food refreshes me emotionally
Peanuts is everywhere in the world
I was at the airport in Buriram when a team was getting their luggage ready for loading on the plane to Bangkok, all looking the same; suitcases that is.
Doraemon is also everywhere. Hello KEN!
Lao flag stickers for my motorcycle
Somebody used a sharpie on this guy’s face to make new eyelashes. He is running for election, Or a beauty contest?
Cheese Roti. Try it sometime. Tell them not to put sugar on it
double steamed chicken on rice. Very nice
Selling murder weapons at the gas station. Quite a demonstration on this metal pipe.
KAITENZUSHI. Without any customers how long will this conveyor belt sushi keep going around and still have fresh sushi on it? I didn’t stick around to find out
Someone stole my shoes at a wedding ceremony. These are my new ones.
NAMTOK flavored noodles with pork. tasty. The coffee was the worst tasting coffee I had all year
Don’t I look so pitiful? By the way, this is what I call “High Fashion”.
The one on the upper right also went on my motorcycle. Is it to warn people?