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Khon Kaen Slideshow
Top Hotels in Khon Kaen
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Sofitel Raja Orchid Khon Kaen
164 reviews -
Charoen Thani Princess Khon Kaen
80 reviews -
Kosa Hotel Khon Kaen
16 reviews
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Khon Kaen Hotel
9 reviews
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Rachawadee Resort & Hotel Khon Kaen
11 reviews -
Taksila Hotel Khon Kaen
7 reviews
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Bussarakam Hotel Khon Kaen
11 reviews
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Chaipat Hotel Khon Kaen
2 reviews
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Rosesukhon Hotel Khon Kaen
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Kaen Inn Hotel Khon Kaen
2 reviews
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Roma Hotel Khon Kaen
5 reviews
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Phu Inn Hotel Khon Kaen
3 reviews
Khon Kaen
Travel Blogs from Khon Kaen, Thailand
Miss KKU
This is a top pick! ... home of somtam and sticky rice which I had to agree was pretty good here. Leaving Jojo at Khon Kaen University I spotted a sign for a Miss Khon Kaen University competition and also wished I was a student in Thailand when I was at university ...
Half Way Back Again
This is a top pick! ... and then onto Khon Kaen to take Jojo back to his university. Was bought some green tea with honey thing for a drink in Khon Kaen which I remember gagging on in Japan thinking it tasted not too far off washing up liquid with this one also tasting ...
Steve of the Jungle
... Google map of the country and asked a Thai-speaking man to tell me what the name of the town was. I booked a train ticket to Khon Kaen immediately, and last night was on my way. Soon after getting aboard the train, I met a French couple named Marianne ...
Sexpats and Song
The trip from Chiang Rai in Northwest Thailand to Khon Kaen in Northeast Thailand involved 13 long hours of sitting on a crappy bus and being forced to listen to horrible Thai pop music. Because, like all Thai buses, ours was late getting into Khon ...
Connect 4 with hookers: A spiritual journey
... could be granted. And so it was, we arrived in Cambodia. It was a bit of a culture shock following the relatively developed Thailand however I had been there four years ago so knew sort of what to expect. The other thing that became really obvious was how ...
Sausages, no thanks!
Hello to all our fellow readers, We left Phi Mai yesterday and headed North to Khon Kaen. It was a bumpy 5 hour train ride and 1.5 hour bus ride, but well worth it. Although we just arrived here in KK yesterday, we'll be ...
Khon Kaen
Khon Kaen - Isan.... cool place but strange - its really good to learn thai here because there arent any other foreigners around and even though this is a really beautiful place , tourist never make it out here and whenever you see a foreigner its always ...
Like greased lightning!
... weekend, it's actually a mere 30 mins/10$ by taxi to the border from our house. Easy peasy. We then headed to the unusual destination of Khon Kaen in the North East for ...da da dah!! I can't do this any other way than burst it out so here it is I AM ...
Scambodia, Spa Days and Ladyboy birthday parties
... must though and after a 12 hour journey and one night in Bangkok we headed to the locals bus station to get a bus to Khon Kaen, a North Eastern student city with absolutely no tourists but a great relaxed vibe. It would be a good stopover for a couple of ...
Water Festival!
... , and you are appreciating that fact as you hop on the back of a friend's pickup truck as he motors around the city of Khon Kaen, crawling through the streets in a massive parade/water fight. Imagine being in the back of a pickup truck with ten other ...
Learning from the best: My week with Gary B
... accepted into their gang as they gave me a sticker with their patch on it. I am now part of the Lone Brothers Motorcycle Club of Khon Kaen. I can't really put it in my golf so, mum, it looks like i'll be buying a chopper. Afterwards we went out with Dave ...
Trip to Northern Thailand
20 June 2009 Had a leisurely morning, this date, in preparation for out trip to the North. We departed Bangkok at 2000 hours for a long, slow train ride to Khon Kaen. ...
Khon Kaen
After some deliberation we decided to stop off halfway down the northeast of Thailand to break up the travelling at a place called Khon Kaen. It has Thailands largest university so the city and the people are clued up and the city is certainly moving ...
Dried pond weed, yum yum
28th April 2009 A Hotel in Phon, Thailand Very hot and sweaty Yesterday: Udon Thani - Khon Kaen (125 kms) Today: Khon Kaen - Phon (80 kms) We seem to be doing really well on grotty hotels in Thailand at the moment. The Kings in ...
Sauterelles grillees etc
... Un ermite a construit des statues massives en beton de toutes les divinites hindoues et bouddhistes dans un jardin. La prochaine etape etait Khon Kaen, principale ville du nord-est de la Thailande. Jicki est venue me prendre a la gare et on a commence ...
Golden temple!
Day 115 ; Awoke on the train at about the time we where ment to reach our stop (nice and early as usual,had woken up at half four) they train had apparently been stopped for a while and we where still four hours away, there had been an accident some ...
Khao wineries & national park
I left Bangkok by train to reach one of Thailand's wine region, 2h NE of Bangkok. The vineyards are surrounded by hills and the landscape is beautiful and the wines are quite good! Since it was about 4pm when I finished the wine tasting, I decided to ...
Happy Birthday King!
... a whim, and was rewarded. Khon Kaen is a small city of about 100,000. Dec 5 is the King of Thailand's birthday, which coincided with the "Friendship alliance" festival of Khon Kaen. So there was a massive fair and celebration going on in the town ...
Day 49: The longest day...
... ; as well as the ice cream stall outside. About an hour and we were back on the bus to head into the middle of Khon Kaen and a huge (9 floored) Buddhist temple. There were many relics to see around it and photos were permitted so I snapped away. The view ...
Toast, "wired" monks, and shopping
... as universities struggle to increase their numbers of nursing school applicants. After breakfast, we went to the Buddhist temple (wat) in Khon Kaen. We paid a small amount of money to a child tour guide who spoke English, but then toured the temple ...
The power of branding
... a goofy America cluelessly serenades people of different religions with a gospel folk hymn. So far, I've subjected Buddhists from Thailand, China and Bhutan and Hindus from India to my sorry rendition of Amazing Grace. Fortunately, the people from ...
"I would say you are transvestite, yes?"
... program. And a clinician training program. And advanced techniques in gynecological surgery. And ideally a CD containing photos from Thailand of horrifically disfigured genitals afflicted with STIs. Is this something I can help them with? (4) The ...
A day to remember....
When I leave Thailand at the end of November, I will leave feeling confident that Khon Kaen University got more lecturing out of me that I ever thought humanly possible. The classes here are veritable marathons - at least 3 hours of lecture - and many ...
Tantalizing Thailand II
... these budget airlines. (Khon Kaen is just 1hr south of the map pin) Arrived to find Bryce at the airport happily waiting! Drove into Khon Kaen that for some reason was much bigger than what either of us thought it was going to be. Not sure why, but ...
Fun in the tropics
... identifiable. As was the case yesterday, three faculty members asked me today if I've gotten "stomach problems" from eating in Thailand yet. Their repeated inquiries are almost comical at this point - it's like the entire Faculty of Nursing has a ...
My KKU adventure begins....
Today I flew from Bangkok to Khon Kaen to begin my stay at Khon Kaen University. The flight was about an hour and half late but fortunately I was able to get to an internet kiosk to let my hosts know I would be running late. The Faculty of Nursing's ...
Isaan (Khon Kaen)
... , sort out and write about everything. So just keeping to the main attractions here. Today i'm just having a chill day. Khon Kaen is a University city so has plenty of students who are always willing to practise their english on a farang. So ...
Hitting the ground running - busy, busy!
... . I thanked the vendor and went back upstairs to my office, fairly certain that there will now be an urban legend floating around Thailand that Americans are total freaks who eat elephant. I ran into O when I went back upstairs and told her the ...