Khon Kaen, Thailand

... 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 too.

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... 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 like ...

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... 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 without ...

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 Kaen ...