Are there any other Geocachers here. Since this is a map/GPS forum I would guess that there might be a few. Geocaching is a game that involves hiding a cache somewhere and posting the coordinates on Geocache forum on the Internet.

I have been geocaching for 10 years now. 19 countries have treasure waiting to be found. 3 in Thailand.

Gerry

I have been geocaching for 10 years now. 19 countries have treasure waiting to be found. 3 in Thailand.

Gerry

Please tell us more about this game. It seems quite interesting, an outdoor activity, more fun than a lot of computer games, I should think. What treasures have you found so far? How precise are the geodata that are given?

Any treasure hidden in Switzerland? If three of 19 currently undiscovered treasures are in Thailand it must be quite popular in Thailand.

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Maestro

I have been geocaching for 10 years now. 19 countries have treasure waiting to be found. 3 in Thailand.

Gerry

Please tell us more about this game. It seems quite interesting, an outdoor activity, more fun than a lot of computer games, I should think. What treasures have you found so far? How precise are the geodata that are given?

Any treasure hidden in Switzerland? If three of 19 currently undiscovered treasures are in Thailand it must be quite popular in Thailand.

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Maestro

When you google "geocaching" you will get numerous hits that will give you many different types of geocaching. I will give you my version.

It is less then a game and more of a hobby. I bury treasure whereever I travel and record the gps coordinates. I then place these coordinates on various places on the web and other places in the real world (think DaVinci Code) for people to find and then plan a adventure to locate these treasures. People generally need a metal dectector to find them as they are usually buried, but not always.

In my caches I put a note stating who I am what they have found (in case a non geocacher fiinds it) and an email address to inform me it has been found. I also instruct the finder to take the treasure (they earned it) and replace the empty container back into the spot where it was found with a note stating "I beat you to it!" This is for the next hunter. and so on. I also put a new gps location in each treasure.

The appeal is the adventure and not necessary the treasure. I hide treasure worth USD $100 to $3000+ around the globe. I place my treasures in places that are out of the ordinary and will take a person "off the beaten path" to located them. Some are in major metropolitan areas, some underwater, in caves, jungles and deserts. To date I have placed 45 caches and received 7 e mails.. 2 e mails are from the same cache.

As for the popilarity question, geocaching has no geographical boundries. 3 are in Thailnad because I live here. There is one is in Switzerland.

Life is a journey not a destination. Carpe Deim.

Gerry

I will not give gps points here. Afterall, finding them is part of the journey

Thank you, GWH. Today, I am wiser than I was yesterday. I will look it up on Google and I might then even go and bury a treasure on one of my mountain hikes. I've got a Garmin GSmap 60CSx to take the co-ordinates.

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Maestro

I also Geocache. I have only been at it since October of last year. But I have been a factor in getting 5 other people addicted to the hobby. The best source for info would be www.geocaching.com which i believe is the primary sight, there may be others. Another versions of geocaching is Earthcaching whose goal is to educate people about our planet and its natural features, www.earthcache.org. It is a great hooby as it will get you to explore places that you may not have been aware of, both the good and the ugly places.

I have hidden 1 cache in Nong Khai (more on the way) and 12 in the UAE. The caches can be a variety of containers from a "Nano" - as small as one of your pinkie finger bones; to large boxes or cans. Sometimes they are buried but not always, most are hidden right under your nose and you would not notice it unless you were really looking for it. There are other types of caches too. All kinds of things make up the "treasure" from nitnacks and silly things, to trackables that you can pick up and move to another cache.

It's big fun; you do not have to hide a cache to enjoy the game as most people are hunters.

Eric

I read the geocaching.com site yesterday and it lists over a hundred caches in my part of Switzerland (Ticino). The guidelines say that it should not be buried in such a way that a shovel or other digging tool would be necessary to get at it. Apparently in Switzerland many caches are in forests:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive.html?s...58596&ty=vn (with video)

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Maestro

I have been geocaching for 10 years now. 19 countries have treasure waiting to be found. 3 in Thailand.

Gerry

You mean you placed 3 right? Geocaching.com has 286 caches listed on their website in Thailand right now. And more on some of the smaller websites too I'm sure.

Geocaching is great fun. I found a few caches in the Middle East when I was working there but haven't done it in Thailand yet because I just got my GPS back. Definitely will start again and maybe even place a few for a change.

Geocaching is not just about taking the treasure and putting a note that says "beat you to it," at least in the U.S. the point is to take something from the cache and also leave something there for the next person, so it becomes an active giving and taking cache. I have some friends who are really into it. It's done all over the place in the U.S. and there are thousands of locations, if not tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. You find it, you take something and then you leave something. Ya, I think that geocaching . com site is the place you will find a lot.

Edited June 22, 200917 yr by Jimjim

I have been geocaching for a total of three weeks, and have found it to be great fun. It provides an incentive to get up and go somewhere. If you like geo, you might like waymarking. This is similar to geo but there is no cache, simply a point of interest.

I have placed a number of waymarks from Thailand onto the waymarking.com site. Thailand has few waymarks, you might want to consider adding some.

I've placed about half a dozen caches around Bangkok. They range from small plastic boxes to magnetic key cases to very tiny nanos to large plastic boxes. For newcomers: If you go on the Geocaching site look for my easiest to find cache named "Watched over by Pretty Thai Girls"....near the Shangri-La hotel. I have another one in Lumpini Park that is much harder to find.

All you need is a GPS.

I also Geocache. I have only been at it since October of last year. But I have been a factor in getting 5 other people addicted to the hobby. The best source for info would be www.geocaching.com which i believe is the primary sight, there may be others. Another versions of geocaching is Earthcaching whose goal is to educate people about our planet and its natural features, www.earthcache.org. It is a great hooby as it will get you to explore places that you may not have been aware of, both the good and the ugly places.

I have hidden 1 cache in Nong Khai (more on the way) and 12 in the UAE. The caches can be a variety of containers from a "Nano" - as small as one of your pinkie finger bones; to large boxes or cans. Sometimes they are buried but not always, most are hidden right under your nose and you would not notice it unless you were really looking for it. There are other types of caches too. All kinds of things make up the "treasure" from nitnacks and silly things, to trackables that you can pick up and move to another cache.

It's big fun; you do not have to hide a cache to enjoy the game as most people are hunters.

Eric

What is your Geo name? I am Bangkok Corkscrew.

I have been geocaching for 10 years now. 19 countries have treasure waiting to be found. 3 in Thailand.

Gerry

Please tell us more about this game. It seems quite interesting, an outdoor activity, more fun than a lot of computer games, I should think. What treasures have you found so far? How precise are the geodata that are given?

Any treasure hidden in Switzerland? If three of 19 currently undiscovered treasures are in Thailand it must be quite popular in Thailand.

--

Maestro

When you google "geocaching" you will get numerous hits that will give you many different types of geocaching. I will give you my version.

It is less then a game and more of a hobby. I bury treasure whereever I travel and record the gps coordinates. I then place these coordinates on various places on the web and other places in the real world (think DaVinci Code) for people to find and then plan a adventure to locate these treasures. People generally need a metal dectector to find them as they are usually buried, but not always.

In my caches I put a note stating who I am what they have found (in case a non geocacher fiinds it) and an email address to inform me it has been found. I also instruct the finder to take the treasure (they earned it) and replace the empty container back into the spot where it was found with a note stating "I beat you to it!" This is for the next hunter. and so on. I also put a new gps location in each treasure.

The appeal is the adventure and not necessary the treasure. I hide treasure worth USD $100 to $3000+ around the globe. I place my treasures in places that are out of the ordinary and will take a person "off the beaten path" to located them. Some are in major metropolitan areas, some underwater, in caves, jungles and deserts. To date I have placed 45 caches and received 7 e mails.. 2 e mails are from the same cache.

As for the popilarity question, geocaching has no geographical boundries. 3 are in Thailnad because I live here. There is one is in Switzerland.

Life is a journey not a destination. Carpe Deim.

Gerry

I will not give gps points here. Afterall, finding them is part of the journey

Wow! That is impressive!

From The Horse's Mouth

1. There are 300 caches in Thailand. Nearly 1,000,000 Worldwide, Even at S 0 deg E 0 deg

2. Most are in Bangkok Area and within 50 km of Pattaya

3. Using Google Earth and the Maps on the Cache Pages plus the hints, many can be found without a GPSr

4. There are 5 levels of increasing difficulty for locating the Ground Zero

4.1 Level 1..It is published

4.2 Level 5...It is encoded and some Ph.D's are hard pressed to break the code., but all info eg The Genetic Code must be on the web.

5. Terrain Difficulty, again 1 to 5

5.1 In your local Lotus Carpark, Lumpini....wheelchair accessible is Level 1

5.2 Serious Off Road/ Jungle/ Mountain Open Water Swims and SCUBA stuff...level 5 You need a GOOD GPSr

6. There are Multis, where you go from place to place and solve clues / get info to proceed, these can be mixed with the puzzles/terrain.

7. There is a feature called "Travel Bugs" where a "thingy" with an ID # is set off by it's owner travels from cache to cache and is trackable on Google Earth....

8. In Thailand it is mainly visitors who cache here, over 4000 finds, they are encouraged to place a cache.

9. No Thais are participating, and biggest problem here is that caches if found by locals will be taken/discarded. i.e. "muggled"

10. Great Place within 25 mins of downtown is Prapadaeng

10. Generally

Caching..Gets you out of the house, exercises your mind and body and is FREE. Children fom 4 years old are great cachers.

Further info on the website, and contact local cachers via the messaging there.

My caching today will take me to two caches and will cover about 100 km, car/pushbike/foot

Edited September 12, 200916 yr by honey2000

Here are some pix to generally show caches didtribution here, there are others in at Krabi, Phuket, Chiang Mai..etc.