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mjshroomer
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Travels in Thailand
#6574740 - 02/16/07 01:43 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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A net-fishing Fleet at Koh Samui near Ban Mae Nam.
A NE east Thailand golden guardian.
A bad tempered baboon
A costumed visitor from the past haunts the temples of Ta Proehm
and finally
A mini version Angkor Wat created by my friend, Padaung, the chief architect for the restoration of the temples.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6574758 - 02/16/07 01:49 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Damn! Imagine playing GI Joes in that mini temple.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: DNKYD]
#6574771 - 02/16/07 01:55 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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That would be fucking AWESOME!
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: DNKYD]
#6574778 - 02/16/07 01:59 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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how often do you go to thailand. I like the baboon.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: myalaby]
#6574846 - 02/16/07 02:26 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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It would be such an experience to visit Thailand, Seems like you had a good time! I hope I'm able to travel the world like that eventually.
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I do like the Mini-Angkor
Very cool.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6574931 - 02/16/07 02:51 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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awesome.
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mjshroomer
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Here is an image of the sculptor himself, Mr. Padaung, with a large poster of him and the King of Cambodia giving him an award for his work at Angkor.
There are about five miniature cities at his home. He is very poor and the friggin white farang architects get all the monies for the work he does.
Here he is given this award by the King himself and he is proud of his work. I have also been blessed to know him and to see other treasure3s not available for others to see. he has shared with me over the years, the pleasure of viewing his personal photographs.
Here are some of him and his work.
I must point out that all of the numbered bricks and slabs at the Angkor compound, he is the only one who knows where they go back into the temples.
A painting of Mr. Padaung as a young man, He is 74 right now.
An image of him and his art degree
I took this image in 2003 of him and his poster of the award from the King of Cambodia
And here is one from last September by Dr. William Harrison.
And this image is from 2005 of him sitting in front of his miniature Angkor Wat display in his back yard of his home.
Later I will find a repaired section of the Angkor temple so you can see the difference from before and after they replaced the bricks and slabs and rebuilt the right front wall of the moat with the stairs to the moats edge. I will show the collapsed brick and its curved formation and then the repair of it years later
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6575345 - 02/16/07 05:25 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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I love it when you share your photos with us
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6575464 - 02/16/07 05:57 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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One day I'll make it to paradise.
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mjshroomer
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: gema]
#6577900 - 02/17/07 10:53 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Cool! I am glad that everyone gets to see this beautiful exotic habitat of where I get shroomies at in Cambodia.
Here is another taken three years later in 2006 of Mr. Padaung.
This next image is of Angkor and surrounding area.
It was taken at over 200 feet altitude from a Hot Air Balloon.
In the top center of the image you can see Angkor Wat
This one taken as the balloon crept closer to the ancient temples built between 800 A.d. and 1200a.d. During this period, the temples belonged to the Hindi speaking peoples who worshiped Shiva. By the 12th century, the Hindu Gods were not helping the people so they became Theravada Buddhists.
the green cloth on the walkway tot he temple in this image below represents some of the repaired walkway bricks replaced with original ones and then filled in with similar concrete reshaped. Between 1989 and 2006, 90 percent of the walkway has been fully restored and one library is almost completely rebuild by replacing the fallen slabs back to their original places.
All of the temples in the district and Angko0r Wat slabs which ahd fallen over the years are all reused and numbered by Mr. Padaung as to where they belong. As noted above, he is the sole mastermind of where the fallen chunks go.
Another image of Angkor from the first gate on the walkway to the temple
Here is a foto of Angkor Bayon, Many faces of Buddha rest here reaching towards the sky.
And one of the modern forms of local transportation for family workers in the region.
mj
There is more if one wishes to see more.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6578090 - 02/17/07 12:17 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Was in thailand not so long ago... some cool places and people. Miss the food sooo much. Its kinda sad to think that in about ten years or so most places like Koh Samui will be in the brouchers along with cheesy Spanish resorts.
Hoping to visit Cambodia and Vietnam in the future!
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: DNKYD]
#6578220 - 02/17/07 01:01 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
DNKYD said: Damn! Imagine playing GI Joes in that mini temple.
Or Godzilla or play pretend to be a nuke.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: budmanman]
#6578704 - 02/17/07 03:08 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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DNKYD said: Damn! Imagine playing GI Joes in that mini temple.
Unfortunately, American forces in Cambodia came through Angkor Thom's gates and blasted the Buddhas with personal fire and shattered and shot up numerous Buddha head imageson the south Gate of the city.
national Geographic published a good issue showingthe damage the American Gi's did.
It was a result of psychological hatred for being ten thousand miles from home, in infested malaria riddled jungles.
See if I can find that image. It is not my photo.
You can see some of the missing heads and some of the bullet holes in these as you walk by them.
Here are two images from Angkor Bayon. Also in the same compound, is Angkor Thom.
And here is a great tree.. Look at the size of its roots and how they grew around the temple corridor.
mj
Edited by mjshroomer (02/17/07 03:37 PM)
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: Unifloo]
#6578835 - 02/17/07 03:51 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Unifloo said: Was in thailand not so long ago... some cool places and people. Miss the food sooo much. Its kinda sad to think that in about ten years or so most places like Koh Samui will be in the brouchers along with cheesy Spanish resorts.
Hoping to visit Cambodia and Vietnam in the future!
Kob cun Kaaab
Unifloo, Koh Samui has fallen ten years ago. qwhen I first came there in the mid 1980s, there was only a dirt road to Chewang. no Chewang road to big buddha.
There was no airport. At one time there came almost 18 planes aday and now Samui has an International airport.
3,000,000 million coconuts a month were shipped to Bangkok for Copra production.
now about 1.25 million a month.
The Gulf of Thailand is stripped of all of its minerals.
Jet skis are ruining the waters.
While there are still some $8.00 a nuight bungalows on Samui. Everyone goes to Koh Phanghan and Koh Tao or Koh Fan.
Cambodia is much cheaper and the farther away form civilization you go, the cheaper everything is.
Coke in Cambodia is very cheap as you can see but the sale here in this image between Phophet and Psisyphon.
and if you get hungry, window service at the local coke station. Right up to me in the window with these tasty morsels of joyous delight.
mj
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6579341 - 02/17/07 07:13 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, its shame. Even though I went to the more remote islands like Koh Chang, I cant say that I've experienced what it was twenty or so years ago. I contemplated staying a night Koh Samui but the descent in to the airport reminded me so much of Alicante or somwhere with shiny high rise apartement block that I didnt bother.
Oh and the cuisine, pig intestines was as exotic as I got....
Sorry no pics
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: Unifloo]
#6579689 - 02/17/07 09:17 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Pizza Hut in Penang, Malaysia serves both Locust Pizza as well as Chicken Curry Pizza. I have great food photos but thats another story.
mj
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6579703 - 02/17/07 09:20 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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were you doing some of the ummm yea how do you say mike gordonesqe thingz?
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6579846 - 02/17/07 10:09 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Magnificent pictures!
I dream of going there one day, and seeing those photos makes me want to hop a plane tonight!
Well done!!!
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6580327 - 02/18/07 01:22 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah bro I was in Koh Samui just over a year ago. It's really nice but touristy as hell these days. I have a fond memory of buying dope off someone while we were both on moving motorbikes. Have you been to Vietnam yet? I went there last July and it was one of the most amazing places I've ever been to. It's not touristy at all in alot of parts and there are hardly any americans (No disrespect but they do have a habit of making places tacky on their mass travels).
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6580385 - 02/18/07 02:15 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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This is a bit off-topic, but isn't Thailand one of the leading countries in child prostitution?
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: Konnrade]
#6580402 - 02/18/07 02:35 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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I can't die before living in Thailand for some time. Not for the above mentioned reason though.
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Quote:
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: Boom]
#6580581 - 02/18/07 05:25 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Thanks for sharing!! I plan to go to Thailand sometime next year for the first time and I cant wait! Great pics!
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: OMniversal]
#6582321 - 02/18/07 05:23 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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For all of those who want to go to Thailand, this post is of Cambodia, not Thailand.
btw, Cambodia is a cesspool and place of Child prostitution, but the Philippines is probably worst. The authorities are now finally being curtailing those illicit activities.
Phnom Penh, the Capital is disgusting place. Only been there once and did not like it. I do not like big cities when I am away from America.
Now, Angkor Wat is only accessible from the road or water. Plane fare is $350.00 rt trip from Bangkok, and takes 30-45 minutes depending on which flight you are on.
From the road it takes 10-12 hours from the border and longer to travel to Angkor due to pot-holes and bad rich red-clay like soil which constantly sinks causing pot holes along the route. Cost is about $35.00 rt.
Or fly to Phnom Penh and take a boat to Angkor Wat region and then a pedi-cab ride to Xiem Riap.
Here are six images of the road to Angkor Wat form the Cambodia Border at the refugee camps at Pophet, Kampuchea.
Leaving the border town:
on the long and lonely road:
A collapsed bridge and locals repair. Took over 3 1/2 hours to fix. The metal slab was in the water under the bridge and had to be towed out by a larger vehicle and then the wood replaced.
A vehicle of local travelers in front of us.
Why is the road ahead so damaged?
Due to rain and large vehicles overloaded with goodies and travelers.
And here is a good one of many on a vehicle traveling to the Angkor region
This next image below is not mine but form a Nat. Geo. mag of the late 1960s on what the GI's did when passing through the region.
mj
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6582988 - 02/18/07 08:26 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Six of 8 of us
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: mjshroomer]
#6583081 - 02/18/07 08:48 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Phnom Penh, the Capital is disgusting place. Only been there once and did not like it.
Speak for yourself, Mj. I've been to Phnom Penh a couple of times and I love it! Before I arrived there I half expected a grimy, ugly, dangerous place... but it's actually remarkably attractive and full of character.. lots of beautiful colonial buildings, awesome markets, the Royal Palace and the National Museum which is stunning. Great restaurant, great nightlife, always lots of action and I found the locals to be extremely friendly. Compared with most Asian capitals it's not really a big city.
Granted, the atmosphere can be pretty overwhelming and not for everyone.. lots of beggars, insane traffic, aggressive tuk tuk drivers... the lakeside area is a complete dump, and parts of the city do feel distinctly unsafe. It's not for everyone, but still, after the great time I had there I'm a bit shocked you completely write it off as "disgusting."
If you just did the obligatory tour through the Killing Fields and S-21, well that tends to leave a pretty bleak impression, but I've kicked back and partied there for a week at a time and it was great.
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Re: Travels in Thailand [Re: Fina]
#6583162 - 02/18/07 09:08 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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While I went there twice, I had a great time myself. And yes I saw many of the same things you saw ans I stillhad a good time. I would personally, if not for the museum, recommend it to anyone. I would recommend Angkor, although now there are more than 60 buses of touristsa day arriving at Angkor and the majority are Japanese people. A primary contributor to the restoration of the temples. Germans and Italians are the next biggest contributors.
mj
Of course abnyone can have a good time there, but as a whole I do not like big cities
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