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Ubon Ratchathani Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
Goodbye Laos, Hello Thailand!
This is a top pick! ... over a Leo beer. 11/11/2011: We send our last package home from Asia and this is the cheapest and most effecient service yet - Thailand just gets better and better. We take the local bus (song-tow roughly in English) again to the bus station and buy our ...
Khao Phra Wihan
This is a top pick! ... Thai man if he had a Thai wife. From what we saw, we are guessing that many foreigners come to this part of Thailand to find themselves wives. I can count to ten in Thai! Since Khao Phra Wihan belonged to Cambodia but is only accessible from ...
Again passing through
This is a top pick! Ubon Ratchathani was to be my base for visiting Prasat preah Vihear, as they call it in Cambodia, or khao phra wihan in Thai. This is the temple had wanted to make the excursion to whilst i was in Siam reap, but due to the wet season it had proved ...
Resting and hanging out
July 8 Wednesday Today we mostly stayed at home, cooked, did laundry, and went to the library to get on the internet. I was able to send Michael an email, and get his... that was nice. The big containers in the courtyard, near the kitchen and washing ...
Lunch in Laos
... out the window of a hotel room thinking I had ventured as far out in the global wilderness as i would care to go. Ubon Ratchathani International airport has 2 gates and one luggage carousel. It is serviced by two carriers, one with 3 flights in and ...
The home where we live and our daily life
As I have mentioned before, we are living in the home of Pong, Set, Jum, and Bobby. In the morning, when it does not rain, Thomas, Supa, and I walk. We do this about 4 or 5am to avoid the heat. We walk to the river, and walk across the bridge and back... ...
Another night bus
From Kanchanaburi we got a minibus for 3 hours to Bangkok before immediately boarding an overnight bus to Ubon. Nothing much to talk about really! The journey from Kan to Ubon took from 3pm until 7am, and then we had a 2 hour wait for the Laos ...
Wax sculpting in Issan province
... area so after an hour wondering what to do, we went to the train station and got a night train to Ubon Ratchatani in Issam province in the East of Thailand, pretty much because the train arrived at a good time the next morning. There wasn’t that ...
Fiery Thai Wives and Amazing Race Challenges
... was supposed to be a quiet day of checking out MBK Shopping center and then a chilled train road in a 1st Class cabin to Ubon Ratchathani. The shopping part was pretty uneventful, just 7 stories of crazed shopping with a 1 whole story dedicated to iPhone ...
catching up
... , so I figured it out and reset it. For those of you who understand those things or care, the pin is set to Phibumangsahani, TH.71, Thailand. When I Goggled it on the Google map, I was able to zero in and see: the roof top of this house; the next block, ...
Temple in Phibunmangsahan
Oom took Elise and me to the temple here, while Supa and Pong went to get beautiful for tomorrow. The Temple is incredibly beautiful. We had a wonderful time... pictures to follow when the internet is more cooperative! ...
Ubon comme on dit ici
... region est sous developpee entre-autres du point de vue touristique, les thailandais visitent leur region a l'aide des guides suedois ( chercher l'erreur ). Bref, la ville d'Ubon est un paradis de la bouffe et des temples loufoques... un vrai plaisir ...
the Parade
July 6 Monday "Stick with what you know, and don't stray off the beaten path" - Thomas Good wisdom. I have eaten some very different foods with some very different spices. There have been some foods that have not agreed with me at all. When I ask what ...
Visiting relatives
... , so we came home. I was too tired to journal, so I went straight to bed. I did find out that where we live, is not Ubon, but a small village about 35 miles East. The name of it is Phibumangsahan. (this is a correction in the name I had posted earlier) ...
Ubon Ratchathani
07/04/2009 Crossing the border was easy, then a quick change of buses in Ubon and on with the ...
the family in the home
... . Thomas is my son from San Antonio, Texas. He is a good husband, a good father, and a school teacher. This is why we are in Thailand at this time of year. Supa is Tom's wife, and Elise's mother. I love Supa very much, and she loves me... we have a great ...
Bang Pussee, Ubon Ratchathani
... 07 We (Cammy, Harry (Dad), Tio (Wife), Ploh (Sister) & myself) travel to Bangkok and get the plane to Ubon Ratchathani, where we are met by some of the family. Once we have stocked up on some supplies we head off in the minibus ...
Khong Chiam to Ubon.
... gold card here, just an ungodly uncomfortable seat and open doors & windows for air/con. Seven hours from Nung Rong to Ubon. Stayed in Ubon for a night and left promptly for Khong Chiam the following morning. Only one local bus per day, so no option ...
the elephant ride and Bar-B-Que
... It was very good, and suprisingly tasted more like food from home than any I've had so far, the whole trip! Thai food in Thailand, is VERY different from Thai food in the States. I have taken pictures of the fruits and vegetables, but no one can spell ...
Parc surnaturel
Suédois, ou Norvégien... du Nord donc. Il s'occupe d'excursions pour handicapes. Surtout. Donc on a pas hesite, on est rentres et on lui a demande la totale. 16 heures de 4x4 dans le région. Réveil a l'aube, malheureusement. Et hop, une grande ...
Relou...
... celsius. Mon sac à dos est lourd. Mais j'ai décidé de marcher gentiment en direction de la gare ferroviaire. En effet, convaincue qu'Ubon ne présente vraiment aucun intérêt, je décide - carrément - de prendre le train de nuit pour Bangkok. Au ...
Khao Panssar
... a whole lot of tourist stuff. The economy is agriculturally based and its 2 main crops are rice and bar-girls. The majority of Thailand's commercial sex workers hail from this part of the country. Though i didn't see a lot of abject poverty, over the ...
The Isan
Ubon Ratchathani is a big city in the Northeast of Thailand, right by the borders to Laos and Cambodia. The people here also speak Isan, a dialect that is linguistically identical to Lao. This was supposed to be my second home, but I'm now catching up ...
Camping with Peace Corps Volunteers
... third reason for venturing up to Issan was to visit with a Peace-Corps Volunteer out in the field. Since i returned from Thailand last summer, I have been kicking around the idea of volunteering upon completion of grad-school. Last January, I was ...
a Scheherazade for Michael
... in Bangkok, after 11pm on Friday night. We started the Fourth of July, at midnight, when we left Bangkok in a van to travel to Ubon Ratchathani. On the Goggle map, it is a little more than 9 hours away. It took us until almost 2pm to get here. About 1:30 ...
candles galore!
... vistas and take a photo that looks different from the other 500 hundred) and we took the bus to the nearest Thai city, Ubon Ratchathani. the 'taxi' driver (the taxi was an isuzu twincab with his small son on the back seat) wanted to take us to ...
Hello Ubon
... products that we haven't seen for months (yes, I am talking about McDonalds). Welcome to civilization. Our time in Ubon Ratchathani was limited as we were simply breaking the journey up back to Bangkok. We did however have a real blast looking ...