Phimai, Thailand

... again we all headed out to a Lebanese restaurant which was about the only place I've seen Lamb being served in Thailand so far. Stuffing ourselves with some great Mediterranean style food including humus, pita bread, potatoes and olives we were all glad ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... Prasat(temple), but it gratefully lacked the touristy feel. The local market sold not souvenirs but food and other necessities. Phimai would be our homebase for the next week of volunteering on an Earthwatch archaeological project. That evening we met the ...

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... multiple times giving the illousion of a forest, it really was quite amazing, and FREE, which is more amazing because nothing in Thailand is for free.... So that was the touristy stuff done, so it was off to teh market for some dinner, whihc we took ...

The next day we took a couple of buses to get to Khorat, and then to Phimai, a small town with another set of old Khmer ruins. This is another town that rarely sees white tourists, so they are all super inquisitive and fantastically nice. We stayed in a ...