I've been to Mae Hon Song a few times and, somehow, avoided going to Pai!
Was even gonna move up there, but last visit, kinda looked run down - maybe 3 or 4 years ago, compared to maybe 10 years ago. lol
I'm now near Khao yai, just north of Bangkok.
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Just did 350 kilometers yesterday from Kanchanaburi to SukoThai area, the small town just south of it. The lesser known Kamphaengphet.
I tried to take a plane from Pai to Chang Mai once, but the stopped running the service a few months earlier, not the most popular flight I suppose. haha
Kha Yai, never hear of the that place, I'll have to look it up. Pai was certainly one of my old stomping grounds. I'd just hang out at the local pool/bar hang afternoon hangout spot and hook up with one girl after another like a total pig. Certainly fit my lifestyle at the time. Don't tell Jungle Girl! haha but she probably already assumed such things. So, I never made it to Mae Hong Son! lol
There's a great temple complex at K - old style Khmer design, if I recall, then "adapted" to Buddhism. Those Hindu temples, if you approach them as if in a ceremony, are pure theatre - the way the temple rises over the horizon of the steps!
Look, it s a jungle girl! Hahaha I think this may be the place you are referring to, or maybe not. Just made it to Sukhothai yesterday. Temples here are more impressive for sure.
I don't recall the "busted" statues.
The template is always the same from Khmer empire days - before Thailand existed ;-)
A Bengal cattery moved to Sukhothai - if you're into... felines.
Then probably not the place you're referring to, but it's close enough for me! I'm very much into felines, far more than history; just like @lucylin in one of his recent posts ;) haha
looks interesting - one I visited, all the statues and friezes were stolen by the Americans years ago, prob during the Vietnam war. lmao. That's how to treat an ally.
Just like like dropping all the extra bombs on neighboring Laos for no reason other than to order more from the weapons manufactures to keep the money flowing.
If you're still there and interested = http://www.bangkokbengalcats.com/available-kittens/
their fakebook page will have more recent details.
We visited them in BK and kept in touch, so know they have now moved.
Left this morning. Now is Tak. Getting closer and closer to the Tribe! They just harvested pumkins, and are now planting the rice fields. Gonna be a real @junglegirl experience! But thanks for the tip and the link, very interesting indeed.
Now @rycharde here, he knows how to live it, he's in the best part of Thailand Khao Yai you are ahead of us...looking for he's grape plantation farm...nice !!
The flight from Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son was fun - small twin-prop plane skimming above the mountains, then swooping down to the smallest airport I've ever seen. Slippery when wet!
I did enjoy my time in CM - would prob still be there if it wasn't for the annual unbreathable smoke haze. I'm sure there are more books in CM than BKK! Luckily they don't burn them.
It's crazy that smog season. I remember 15 years ago visiting Chaing Mai during that time of year and it was like a non issue. My girlfriend from there say the same, suddenly the burning got out of control in the past decade and especially the past 5 years.