Saraburi
Travel Blogs from Saraburi, Thailand
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Khao Yai National Park
... it is best to book in advance or be prepared to not stay in the park if you are there on a weekend / holiday. Khao Yai is Thailand's oldest National Park and one of the largest. It is not far from Bangkok and contains tigers, elephants, deer, monkeys, ...
About land
... people I am sending it to. It may not make much sense to anyone else. Today we drove out to some land in Saraburi province. It is about 2 - 3 hours away from our home in Bangkok depending on traffic and the speed at which you drive and whether ...
Niende dag i Thailand
Saa er der gaaet endnu en dag her i Thailand, og idag blev den brugt i Saraburi, der hvor jeg boede som barn, fra 1990-1992 og fra 1995-1996. Det var maerkeligt at gense byen, den lignede sig selv og saa alligvel ikke. Foerst gik jeg lidt rundt paa maa og ...
It's gonna be a long day!
... hill ride for the rest of the journey, Jo was setting the pace as Steve lagged behind blaming his gears or something. We reached Saraburi just before 11, stopping to take a photo at the final 3km sign. At this point Rita's bike rack began to give way ...
Brent comes to Thailand - lock up your daughters!
... for him. Brent had a meeting with some business associates and I tagged along for a tour of Thai tire manufacturing plant in Saraburi. Actually it was pretty interesting as we were guided around by Supoch and Bee. As we walked through the plant, we ...
One chapter ends, five months of travel begins
... homeward journey I am thankful to have had the chance to live as part of a community for an extended time. I moved to Saraburi in May, and I’m leaving in early October. That’s five months in the same place. I appreciate that ...
Coach Brian
... 2012”, and my favorite “I love teacher Pan”. All the rest are In Thai (not surprising I am in Thailand) I can say one thing for sure: if we don’t win on the field, I guarantee that if we participate in an ...
Let the teaching begin!
... Challenge, California population 1,069, and Carson Washington population 2,747 were two of my favoriates (both figures include dogs). Saraburi with nearly 50,000 people is a metropolis by comparison. As for the origin of the word "Saraburi", ...
The Season Ends, and I Look Forward
An early season win was a nice way to start my coaching career, but sadly it did not set a precedent and become a streak. To win the first game was a satisfying start that bolstered team confidence but alas, after our first game, the team performed as I ...
20 things and 30 years
... bit. The balance: 6 white guys, 300 Thai people. -The Thai rock band called "Big Ass" (not a joke) stopped in Saraburi on their national tour, and I went to the show. - A trip to a local supermarket (Tesco Lotus) and some of the ...
Pinky and the Game
Every self respecting youth sports team has one, and ours is nicknamed Pinky (her actual name is Nantaporn, but I have a slight aversion to calling women a name with the word "porn" in it so I will use her self-appointed nickname). She is the ...
Mike and Pat help teach a lesson
How could my parents from the other side of the planet help their son teach a lesson? A fair question... The assignment: "Write one question about the USA, or my family". Each student wrote one question in their notebook, and I told ...
On a Run - Waiting for More
... Me” Is this woman aware of the pop-culture idiom for this term? Has she any idea of its evocative character? Thailand is rife with suggestive banter as the sex tourism capitol of the world, so this shirt in many places would be normal. ...
Teachers catch colds... from the students?
It appears that all my pre-trip vaccinations haven't worked. Due to the mosquitoes, lack of sleep, being around snot-nosed nine year olds and general lifestyle, I now have malaria, yellow fever, west nile, polio, dengue fever, and possibly the clap ...
E.P.F.C . - We Can Win, You Will See!!
The opening ceremony for the Anubon Cup was quite a show. It started with a welcome speech from the school head-master to all the teams. It was all in Thai of course, so I don't know what was said, but I can imagine it was an inspirational speech ...
Shirts matter more than content - This is Thailand
... is this: I'll wear your damn shirts, just tell me how to do my job! I will be teaching at the Aunobon Saraburi Primary school, a behemoth building housing 3,000 six to twelve year old students. I’m really interested to see what it will be like ...
Teaching after six weeks
Do you remember your first day of your current job? From the first step through the front door, you immediately form an opinion of the ways and means of your new occupation. It is those memories that stay with you long after you move onto ...
Dr Wes pays a visit and helps to teach
... between the eyebrow and the retina then I can judge the effectiveness of his teaching. After two days in Saraburi, we took a trip to a nearby beach so that he could see the tourist side of Thailand away from the small-town isolation. ...
A full week of fourth graders
... will bow their heads in unison as the teacher chants. Separation of Church and State? Not here, public education in Thailand includes learning the fundamentals of living a good Buddhist lifestyle. Each school day ends with a chant of: ...
Dragging Sticks up a Hill
I'm consistently amazed by how some accomplishments are realized with so few resources. Having worked for the US Government for nearly six years, I observed, and was in every respect part of the opposite; an inefficient process. My employer was the ...
Baptism of fire and rain
Our first serious cycling today (Saturday) and a testing one. We started at 8am with the temperature around 30 and rising. In the moring we cycled 30 miles with some serious hills which took a toll on everyone combined with the heat and humidity. The ...
Evil Monkeys
So after a solid 24 hours of travel (with bus and train delays) I made it to Saraburi, the home of my friend Sukamol whom I work with at the CGB. Today, We (sukmaols Family and I) visited Lopburi, a nearby town, to look at the old khmer temples there ...
Our home
We were expats, but our flat was not expat-style, it was tiny. Here are some pics from the first month at Siam City Cement ...
Leaving soon
"Our" pool, it was the pool for the entire compound, about 200 people or so. And this was how it looked on a good day, on a bad day it might be ...
A month more
Well...it's more than 10 years since I experienced this, so I can't tell you that ...
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