October 11, 20169 yr Author Today, I wanted to do some km on red roads .. I did 51 km and was happy to shoot some photos in hevea plantations and our beautiful countryside in Issan . All photos shot today - tuesday 11th of october 2016 - with my Olympus TG 860
October 11, 20169 yr Author Be careful if you like to make an itinerary with Google Map ; on Google Map, this is a road for all sort of vehicles ..
October 11, 20169 yr Author But with a MTBike we always find a solution Rubber trees are behind me; now rice everywhere
October 11, 20169 yr Author Prasat Khom , not far from Sawang Daen Din - 13* century On the other side of the red road, this vehicle..
October 14, 20169 yr Author Yesterday, I was on my MTBike for another balade .. Sunrise just outisde my village Babies are on holidays all this month so no problems .. A beautiful paint truck on road 2280
October 14, 20169 yr Author This man selling thai mattress 80 kilometers - all photos with Olympus TG 860
October 15, 20169 yr Author Today saturday 15 of october 2016 My five dogs eating under the sala ; the cat was already " full" and escape .. Less than 1 km from my house .. On rd 22 , direction Udon Thani
October 15, 20169 yr Author Always on rd 22, but on the wrong lane It's not a Michelin doll And we had rain
October 15, 20169 yr Author We aren't in Vietnam ... Still raining .. 61 kilometers today - all photos with Olympus TG 860
October 17, 20169 yr Author Monday 17 of october 2016 98 kilometers on rd 22, then 227 & 2021 - all photos with Olympus TG 860 Just outside Phangkhon on rd 227 A Michelin doll with a policeman helmet on this machine A pickup, as usual in Thailand
October 18, 20169 yr Author Tuesday 18 of october 2016 Farang bababobo I am ! 150 kilometers with my MTBike today; Went to Udon to see if my new cycle shoes arrived from Bangkok ... Yes, size 11.5 Not a normal size in Thailand, so ... I must order, phone to Bangkok.. Bo pen yang do ..I shot some photos during my trip All photos with Olympus TG 860 Mercedes in Udon Thani , not far from Makro , same side of the rd
October 18, 20169 yr Author It's alone in the countryside Tut-tut, bip-bip, ouin-ouin , klaxon concert for this stupa all the day;( don't know if in the night it's the same ) Next to the stupa, the portal of a big house
October 20, 20169 yr Author Thursday 20 of october 2016 A sunny and hot day , 73 km with my MTBike ans a few photos .. All with Olympus TG 860 I like/love my 21 mm ! We, the truck and I , were at a red light on rd 22; I'm , maybe less than one meter from it On the route coming back home in a PTT benzine station Arriving in my village for lunch, here ... kraphao mou kai dao and a big Coke ( 1,25 l ) for 65 baht .
October 22, 20169 yr Author Yesterday friday 21 of october 2016 , went to Nikhom Nam Un - 103 km on the bike; sunny, too much .. Drank much water and sodas and shot a few photos A big one, maybe 20 cm long Our countryside ... Beautiful , I like it A pink/red dragonfly; the first time I can see something like that
October 22, 20169 yr Author About 2 km before arriving Nikhom Nam Un, a marriage ; and I can say they were drinking not only water .. ( I have read some french newspaper - Ouest France - where they write " it's forbidden to sell alcool to thai people because the death of our King ) A cyclist I will over past in a few seconds .. Another dragonfly, this one is brown All photos with Olympus TG 860
October 24, 20169 yr Author Monday 23 of october 2016 Today no bicycle; Iwent to Udon to buy new shoes for cycling with my MTBike; Exustar size 46 ( french ) 12 ( US men ) 11 ( UK ) and 29,5 ( Japan ) ; why all these different sizes ? I thought they were more expensive than the price I paid : 2250 baht = 58 euros . Two photos today; one in Udon downtown , a old, maybe very old Isuzu And one on the road to return home ; is that a mobil-home ? Olympus TG 860
October 26, 20169 yr Author Yesterday , tuesday 25 of october 2016 ; I like to watch what Google Map can show to us and sometimes we can have some surprises .. For example roads , buildings which doesn't exist ... And so many roads with no number : " rural road no name " ; I cannot understand why they cannot take example , ( not copy but work like Michelin people was working so many years ago ..) on Michelin yellow maps 1/200,000 * , where we have all the roads, even those in ground ; So, I wanted to discover " Our Lady of Miraculous Medal "; it's a catholic church in the countryside, close the big lake Nam Un , not very far from Phangkhon in Sakhon Nakhon province . https://www.google.co.th/maps/@17.2844278,103.722547,18z When on main rd 227 ,I found the rural road to go there About 1km on that rd, a beautiful Wat door At the end of the rd, The village where is the church, ; didn't found it but had a beautiful view on Nam Un
October 26, 20169 yr Author Continuing that rural rd ; beautiful one but cannot see on Google Map which one .. It's strange how they make these maps ... Just before arriving on rural rd 3032, another Wat door; I think the Wat is deserted since a long time .. Lunch at the beginning of Phangkhon ; and much rain on the rd 22 coming back home 110 kilometers; yes, I know, I'm bababobo
October 27, 20169 yr Author And today, thursday 27 of october 2016 a nice off road MTBike balade .. 89 kilometers , maybe 70 off road on red roads .. So many rubber trees on the two sides of the red road ...
October 27, 20169 yr Author I'm going on the top of the hill, far away ... No bridge here .. Another dog who likes my " croquettes "
October 27, 20169 yr Author Going to Tham Phuang Wat It's the beginning at 08.25.00 am of a long ascent - 4,800 meters at average 10% The end at 08.59.44 am top of Phupalek National Park ; entrance free
October 27, 20169 yr Author On Google Map there is a second road to come at the top of Phupalek; I went many times there, never saw the beginning of that second road .. So today I tried to find it and I had the answer ... Don't know where these stairs are going to ... Found another very little (foot)path, it stops about 300 meters far on the house of a monk . One of the building of the Wat
October 27, 20169 yr Author Oh ! nice , colors came back ! Thanks a lot Administrators Downhill in a few minutes and took another red road which is going round the National Park Road marks are old ...
October 27, 20169 yr Author Another little lake which is invisible on Google map Bad red road is beginning As I write often ...Be careful when trying to make an itinerary with Google Map ; many roads are like that; it's , here, nearly impossible to pass with a normal pickup , a 4x2 , and impossible with a sedan car
October 27, 20169 yr Author On Google Map, it's here the beginning of the second road to go at the top of Phupalek ; there is no road, only a foot path and after about 400 meters, nothing ... If u want to destroy your pickup... Another little lake , at the bottom, the wat of the Phupalek National Park , nearly at the top of the hill
October 27, 20169 yr Author Ah ! ah! The red road is white ..it's sand ...I had to walk for about 300 meters . A beautiful dead tree And a non beautiful minibus which was burnt somewhere; now R.I.P in a Wat not far from Phupalek Nat Park
October 27, 20169 yr On 24/10/2016 at 2:16 PM, Assurancetourix said: Monday 23 of october 2016 Today no bicycle; Iwent to Udon to buy new shoes for cycling with my MTBike; Exustar size 46 ( french ) 12 ( US men ) 11 ( UK ) and 29,5 ( Japan ) ; why all these different sizes ? I thought they were more expensive than the price I paid : 2250 baht = 58 euros . Two photos today; one in Udon downtown , a old, maybe very old Isuzu And one on the road to return home ; is that a mobil-home ? Olympus TG 860 If I'm not wrong it says SELL CHEAP so maybe this can be something to use as a summer house. Buy a piece of land and, viola, we have a summer house. I love the pictures and the area. I never manage to give the landscape any justice with my pictures. Very hard to get a beautiful landscape to look good on pictures. But you seems to have mastered the art, at least on some of your pictures. Maybe I should buy the summer house, and the truck and we have a camping mobile May I ask you if you ever see any wild life on your trips? Like deer etc. Seems to be a beautiful way to kill the day. But I have never seen much of wild life here in Thailand. An elephant, a few deer and a bear. Of course plenty birds, but mammals?
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