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A Look Back at Places,People and Art in Northeast Thailand,Isaan

May 4th, 2013 admin

Somdet Phra Srinakarindra Park, Sakon Nakhon, Thailand 29.04.12

This morning while in Sakon Nakhon I went to visit Somdet Phra Srinakarindra Park, near the bank of Nong Han a verylarge lake that borders Sakon Nakhon tow. The park, much smaller than Beung Kaen…Continue reading

Wat Pijit Sangkharam,?????????????????,Buddhism in Thailand

Wat Pijit Sangkharam ????????????????? has been surveyed by “The Culture and Art Center” at Khon Kaen University. It is located in Non Yang, Nong Sung, Mukdahan and in a way is rather unremarkable…Continue reading

Welcome to Kumphawapi, Udan Thani, Thailand

TRUE 3G now reaches all over Isaan as I have previously mentioned. This morning traveling from Sawang Daeng Din. to Nong Han in Udon and south to  Kumphawapi and then to the Friendship Highway and…Continue reading

Silk a Local Art Form in Northeast Thailand,Isaan

I have been visiting, mapping and documenting the Arts and Crafts of Isaan, the Northeast of Thailand for some fifteen years now and one of the most diverse is silk. From the simple to…Continue reading

It’s a sunny Friday morning in Khon Kaen Isaan

And let’s hope it stays that way. Tomorrow Episode 8 of the Isaan Live Podcast, I will be visiting once again with Father Shea at Sarnelli House Orphanage up in Nong Khai. And still trying to figure…Continue reading

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One of the many faces of Thainess in Thailand

December 2nd, 2012 admin

I have been passing the Xoi Cuc seller a few times a week for a few months now, here in Sakon Nakhon. While passing the other morning Daeng mentioned being hungry, nothing new there, so I said let’s try the Xoi Cuc, to which she answered it was bottled water

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The Baci Ceremony, Northeast Thailand had no Business in a Buddhist Monastery

December 1st, 2012 admin

Much of the following taken fromThe Baci Ceremony The Lao Heritage Foundation. Baci is an animist ritual used to celebrate important events and occasions, like births and marriages and any event of importance in the cycle of life, Briefly the Baci is a ceremony to celebrate a special event, whether a marriage, a homecoming, a welcome, a birth, or one of the annual festivals.

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Offering Food Thai Style and Buddhist Style Kathin 2012 Sakon Nakhon, Thailand

November 25th, 2012 admin

Back on the 30th of October the end of Pansaa was marked in the same way many Auspicious events are in a Thai City Temple. I can not call these Buddhist Temples as they only conduct themselves tangently as Buddhists.

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Water Rocket Competition, Rajabhat University, Sakon Nakhon, Thailand

November 23rd, 2012 admin

I do not know how many schools from around the region participated in the contest but there were about 8 schools represented in the finals. The kids were quite enthusiastic and well mannered

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Water Rocket Competition, Rajabhat University, Sakon Nakhon, Thailand

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On the Road Bangkok to Khaon Kaen, Thailand

November 22nd, 2012 admin

After a bowl of quaitiaow (noodle soup) it was up Highway 1 toSaraburi the up through Khao Yai and Pak Chong to Nakhon Ratchasima into Khon Kaen. The 300 and some kilometer trip tales 6 hours, but that includes getting out of Bangkok and into Khon Kaen, both jammed with slow, at best, moving traffic

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On the Road Sakon Nakhon to Khon Kaen

November 17th, 2012 admin

The bus left pretty much ontime and arrived just a bit late in Khon Kaen due to huge traffic jams Saturday or Sunday aand holiday mornings are a good time to travel as most people are asleep. Right now 1305h on the 17th I am sitting on a Nakon Chai Air bus enroute from Khon Kaen to Bangkok, which is a change of plans, but another story.The trip htrough the Phu Phan on the way to Somdet in

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Thailand’s shocking inequity statistics

November 13th, 2012 admin

is the headline of an article written 3 years ago by Khun Sanitsuda, one of the few literate, thought provoking journalists seen on the pages of Thailand’s Nearly English Language Dailies. Her numbers now 3 years old have only worsened and the economic woes in Northeast Thailand, Isaan are in a state of disaster by now. 2 elite gangs are fighting to control the citizens and the wealth of the

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Buddhism, The Kathin Season Arrives in Northeast Thailand

November 11th, 2012 admin

The Kathin season  is one of my favorite times of year in Isaan. First of all, with luck, the weather will start to cool and in another month or so the Haads and Kaengs, beaches and rapids, will start to appear as the water level drops in the Mekhong River

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