Places in Thailand you havent been but want to

[thaibeachlovers]

14 hours ago, LaosLover said:

And that park where you're on a houseboat in a mountain lake (also in the south).

Plenty of lakes/ reservoirs with houseboats in the north. Queen Sirikit reservoir has them.

[KannikaP]

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If you don't get a buzz off them, you're either too young, or need to chill, IMO.

I am a very chilled 75. Too young? 555

[thaibeachlovers]

44 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I am a very chilled 75. Too young? 555

Apparently not chilled enough.

[bignok]

20 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Apparently not chilled enough.

He likes Patts and bars.

[bignok]

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Tha Ton is lovely. I stayed in a quiet place alongside the river, which was true bliss.

I first went there on a tour with Track of the Tiger in the 90s and we had lunch in a delightful hotel. I went back especially to visit that hotel about 20 years later, but was sad to see it had been replaced by a cookie cutter concrete building.

Lovely temple on top of the hill, and pleasant restaurants in abundence.

 

Fang, didn't even stop there.

Tha Ton looks good in photos.

[MarcelV]

Too many places to mention, since my goal is to stay overnight in all provinces. Just traveling through during daylight hours I do not count as visiting a province.

[bignok]

This would scratch that itch

[bignok]

17 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

Travelled so much yet learnt so little ????

What do you know?

[LaosLover]

2 hours ago, bignok said:

This would scratch that itch

Gotta toss in 2-3 days in Mae Sot; one of the more interesting Mae's littering the North.

 

Like Burma on a budget. And another renowned waterfall. 

[bignok]

Just now, LaosLover said:

Gotta toss in 2-3 days in Mae Sot; one of the more interesting Mae's littering the North.

 

Like Burma on a budget. And another renowned waterfall. 

Yes i think so. Sham google maps only go up to "i"

 

Id like to plan it out more.

[LaosLover]

I like the formula of Arrival Day, Vibe and walk around Day, and Special Activity Day (if available). A Nan or a Tak will be light in the special activity department. A Phitsolunuk will not have enough vibe to warrant its own day.

 

But Mae's Sot and Hong Song are proper 3 day-stops.

 

And even the underachieving Mae, Mae Sariang. I love low class border towns It's got the bootleg viagra vibe and the so-so market on the Myanmar side. Plus, you can book a Chiang Saen mini-bus tour from there.

 

Doing the full North with a Chiang Mai stop is prob about a month to do it justice, and that's without the parks.

[bignok]

2 hours ago, LaosLover said:

I like the formula of Arrival Day, Vibe and walk around Day, and Special Activity Day (if available). A Nan or a Tak will be light in the special activity department. A Phitsolunuk will not have enough vibe to warrant its own day.

 

But Mae's Sot and Hong Song are proper 3 day-stops.

 

And even the underachieving Mae, Mae Sariang. I love low class border towns It's got the bootleg viagra vibe and the so-so market on the Myanmar side. Plus, you can book a Chiang Saen mini-bus tour from there.

 

Doing the full North with a Chiang Mai stop is prob about a month to do it justice, and that's without the parks.

Did 2 weeks in CM in June. Enough. Will just skip past it. Given low season will just rock up and sort out rooms by the way.

 

Mark Wiens says that Hang Lay curry is Burmese. I thought it was Lanna. Will def check out the border spots.

 

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, bignok said:

Yes i think so. Sham google maps only go up to "i"

 

Id like to plan it out more.

If heading that way, Mae Sot, may want to research Umphang Dist., Tak, especially if like 'the' waterfall, would think best in TH to see.  They had a scam going, and why I never bothered.   Insist you need a 4X4 to see, but can't use yours ... ????

 

Don't know if that's still going on or not, as was years ago when I was considering it.  At the time, wife couldn't deal with another winding road in the cars we 'had'.   Seems she has no problem in present car, and handled Nan with no problem, surprisingly.  Mae Sot to Thi Lo Su, is 200 kms/4.5 hrs, nuff said.

Thi Lo Su Waterfall

 

Another negative, it's 1 road in, 1 road out, to & through Umphang.

[bignok]

1 minute ago, KhunLA said:

If heading that way, Mae Sot, may want to research Umphang Dist., Tak, especially if like 'the' waterfall, would think best in TH to see.  They had a scam going, and why I never bothered.   Insist you need a 4X4 to see, but can't use yours ... ????

 

Don't know if that's still going on or not, as was years ago when I was considering it.  At the time, wife couldn't deal with another winding road in the cars we 'had'.   Seems she has no problem in present car, and handled Nan with no problem, surprisingly.  Mae Sot to Thi Lo Su, is 200 kms/4.5 hrs, nuff said.

Thi Lo Su Waterfall

 

Another negative, it's 1 road in, 1 road out, to & through Umphang.

Was thinking Namtok Klong Lan in Kampaeng. It looks good. Easily to get to.

[thaibeachlovers]

15 hours ago, LaosLover said:

Plus, you can book a Chiang Saen mini-bus tour from there.

No need to do that. I used the local bus to get to/ from and hired a taxi when there to go up to the Golden Triangle place and back.

I don't like being told where to go and for how long I can stay.

[NorthernRyland]

I think Mae Hong Song is really charming. Stop one night at the mountain Om Goi along the way for some nice weather and vistas.

[Henryford]

On 7/31/2023 at 4:43 PM, LaosLover said:

Fang's hot spring is not what it was. I read that here.

 

I like to google image, say, Fang Downtown in deciding whether or not to go somewhere.

 

One place where this kills the place is Chiang Rai. Chiang Rai has a really ugly downtown.

I spent a pleasant few hours in a bar in Central Chiang Rai watching the clock tower change colour.

 

The white temple is a must see in CR. The best in Thailand.

[bignok]

1 minute ago, Henryford said:

I spent a pleasant few hours in a bar in Central Chiang Rai watching the clock tower change colour.

 

The white temple is a must see in CR. The best in Thailand.

Best white temple as maybe the only one. Ive seen much better temples overall.

[LaosLover]

Superb chicken sate-only specialist near the clocktower. I like that little clutch of bars around the Wangcome Hotel. One even has a nightly band.

 

The Wangcome Hotel is an 80's ugly masterpiece. Inside the vast lobby is a huge bass relief mural that should be in a museum.

 

Chiang Mai grab cabs now have signs saying they'll do the drive to CR with stops at Chiang Doi, a hot spring, and the White and Black Temples RT for 2,500 baht. They'd take 2,000. 

 

A bit outside Mae Hong Son there's a meditation retreat place that draws a few westerners (partic young females). It's a very dramatic setting with a little cave shrine. Typically, you can't just drop into a meditation retreat center and have a wander, but this is Thailand.

 

I donated a bag of rice and received a copper amulet. An assistant took the amulet from him to me, since it's a firm no abbot-touching allowed rule there. 'Had a half hour  one on one with the English-speaking Thai abbot about discernment of sense tones. He was a proper teacher.

 

 

[Skeptic7]

Khao Yai National Park...going this month.

Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary...going in October.

Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary. 

[Skeptic7]

On 7/31/2023 at 4:42 PM, Goat said:

Fang has the best and cheapest opium.

Now we're talking❗????

[bignok]

Mae Sot looks good. 

[KhunLA]

28 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Khao Yai National Park...going this month.

Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary...going in October.

Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary. 

Thanks ... heading that way this month 

[LaosLover]

10 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Whats the grilled cheese and falafel scene down there???  asking for a friend ????

I had a B- falafel in Mae Sot. I'll bet at the refugee camp, they'd toss you a cheese sandwich.

[LaosLover]

13 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

the Ivory Tower BigNok lives in with his 9/10 wife.....................2nd choice  7-11

He's taking his 9/10 GF for a date to 7/11?

 

Respect.

[bignok]

4 minutes ago, LaosLover said:

He's taking his 9/10 GF for a date to 7/11?

 

Respect.

She likes 7/11 as do i.

[LaosLover]

Refugee camp -dating gold. I'll bet that's why they have a fence around it.

[bignok]

1 minute ago, LaosLover said:

Refugee camp -dating gold. I'll bet that's why they have a fence around it.

Platinum

[Fat is a type of crazy]

If you want places that aren't amazing but are something: there's a beautiful waterfall near Pakse in Laos not far from Ubon, much bigger than ones I have seen in Thailand,  as well as beautiful coffee plantations, even though I don't drink coffee, and a beautiful temple built into a hill not far away where my girlfriend and I had a big fight. 

In Uthai Thani there is my girlfriends main temple which inside has mirrors everywhere which is unusual like something out of Lost In Space and a temple on a big hill looking over the countryside. 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

Said temple

 

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