By numbers:
- 8 days: 26 July – 3 August
- 5 provinces: Udon Thani, Nong Kai, Phitsanulok, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son
- 2400 km travelled
- 5 modes: plane, rent car, train, mini van
- 591 photos
- 25 videos
- 73 Instagram posts
- 2 edited videos
- 10 blog posts:
Tag Archives: Bangkok
Morning Train to Bangkok
As soon as I got up on the train from Chiang Mai, my focus was almost immediately on the changing landscapes outside the window—from Ayutthaya Station right up Hua Lamphong Station. It was an enjoyable mixed bag of urban creep sceneries to see.
In Ayutthaya, there was a rhythm of rice fields and industrial estates emerging from the light of dawn. Then they started to work on the new Dark Red Line suburban commuter train in Rungsit. Don Muang was the mark that it had entered Bangkok with the old International Airport. Along the way, there was Bangkok’s Stonehenge, which became street artists’ heaven. It went through the train depot in Bang Sue, which would be the last clear horizon perspective from the train. Finally, while it was approaching the final destination in Hua Lamphong, Bangkok from the train view turned into dense communities.
By the time the train arrived Bangkok, the camera phone and the spare powerbank almost ran out of their power and I got very exhausted with the travelling and everything. But it was all really worth it.
All the shot was taken with an iPhone. The music “Sunburn” by Lee Rosevere trough Creative Commons license BY-NC 4.0
The Temple of Dawn at Dusk
Once upon the time, “globalisation” was a buzz word and tourism was starting to kick in in Thailand. I was studying in Thammsat university and regularly went to the local pub with this view. How stunting was that! Decades went by, a good old scenery hasn’t changed, has it?
Well, it has. This three images are pretty much like the same as I remember then. But the experience around it is definitely different for someone who spent most night out for cheap drinks twenty years ago.
I spare the details such as the snooker tables in the pub then or the nice park next by now.
The photos were original posted on Instagram
Revisiting my local riverside local pub
The Standing
Shophouses in my neighbour are gradually turned. One last standing on this one is a spirit house on the rooftop. But it won’t be long.
Original posted on instagram on 19 May 2014.
Hanging Arts and Real Estate
How fortunate it was that I took a picture of the same spot and posted it here about a year ago. Things go up, things come down. And things go by without you noticing it if you don’t stop for a while and look at it.
Ok, the place is now an open-air beer garden, which I am writing this blog right now. And it is intriguing with the mixture (or the crash) of cultures. I’ll go into the detail what is inside later.
I have always been into urban landscape and paid attention to urban decay. But this time, living back in Bangkok, the refreshing thing is about urban development.
It is definitely not about how the estate development itself but how it connects people. This is why it is something to be explored.
Let’s have a look at the photos side by side, for now.
