Abandoned, Derelict, Decaying Locations Around Thailand

tifino · January 20, 2019

3 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

It was a nice car , a long time ago ..

couldn't resist it... and it's strange that Google cannot recognise a VF Valiant Regal! - a bit more comfy than our old VF Safari wagon.. also may years past...

kickstart · January 25, 2019

This house is in a very rural area built, 20yeras ago, that I know of, all sold teak, never been lived in, owner lives in Bangkok.

Next to this one was another house, same design, that one has now collapsed, again never been lived in, what a waste.

helbob · January 25, 2019

The ghost jungle resort with a big pool.

This resort was luxury and expensive with some big tree-house in 8m. The biggest tree-house had 4 rooms.

The first pic shows this hotel when it was brandnew. The other pics shows it now. The last one was the big swimming pool.

Halfaboy · February 5, 2019

Former restaurant Armenia in Pattaya / Jomtien ( Phra Tam Nak 6 Alley near Sea Hill 5 Road).

GarryP · February 5, 2019

On 1/7/2019 at 6:50 PM, helbob said:

A luxury water-hotel in the paradise. The bathroom is very nice but i don't have a picture. Many locals don't know this place, that's good.

Where's your banjo. That image immediately brought Deliverance to mind.

RickG16 · February 5, 2019

On 10/22/2018 at 2:53 PM, helbob said:

Bad abandoned bar in paradise with much trash behind the bar. They had a wonderful place in the nature, but not takecare the nature ????

Can anyone advise on the location of this on Samui?

@khunPer ?

khunPer · February 5, 2019

4 hours ago, RickG16 said:

Can anyone advise on the location of this on Samui?

@khunPer ?

Not instantly ringing a bell. There's a ferry or larger boat on the sea in the background of image two, and no islands visible in the horizon. I'll try to check in someone in my network knows it.

RickG16 · February 5, 2019

8 minutes ago, khunPer said:

Not instantly ringing a bell. There's a ferry or larger boat on the sea in the background of image two, and no islands visible in the horizon. I'll try to check in someone in my network knows it.

Cheers... I'm thinking if there's no land / islands on the horizon it could be east coast somewhere. Wouldn't mind checking it out anyway.

khunPer · February 5, 2019

2 hours ago, RickG16 said:

Cheers... I'm thinking if there's no land / islands on the horizon it could be east coast somewhere. Wouldn't mind checking it out anyway.

East cost, that was also my first impression, but the ferry or boat disrupted me. However, I checked with another person very familiar with Samui, and he said that some larger tourist boats sometimes pass at the East coast, but he either couldn't say where it could be.

SteveK · February 5, 2019

Amazing photos, I guess you would call it Urbex Photography. There are hundreds upon hundreds of abandoned or half-finished buildings near my village, about 100km from Ubon, as I guess there are in many places around the country. I'd love to know if these are ever published in a book.

Halfaboy · February 6, 2019

Condo was abandoned just before completion. Not sure when. Location: Phra Tam Nak 6 Alley (between Soi 5 / 6 and next to Aruno thai Condo).

helbob · February 12, 2019

Broken boat. I think this boat stay some year there and many tourist passing it

tifino · February 12, 2019

no moor life left in this one. Koh SiChang at the docks

helbob · February 13, 2019

On 2/12/2019 at 1:44 PM, tifino said:

no moor life left in this one. Koh SiChang at the docks

The tower in the background looks also very interessting to go up

tifino · February 13, 2019

2 minutes ago, helbob said:

The tower in the background looks also very interessting to go up

it's the Control Tower' (for want of a better term) of the Island's Port

sadly? not derelict... yet

johng · February 19, 2019

Jomtien beach road

helbob · February 19, 2019

Road road was finish and the engine stay ????

helbob · February 26, 2019

Abandoned pizzaoven on an very nice place near the beach.

helbob · March 12, 2019

A former dive resort on a very small island. Pic 1+2 the broken restaurant, pic 3 one of the 6 bungalows, pic 4 the beachbar, the last pic shows the toilett and bathroom

helbob · April 11, 2019

Broken old school and abandoned house on an almost forgotten nice island

gomangosteen · April 18, 2019

A more personal abandonment ... went into this house in Sa Kaeo over the weekend, once lived here, so different without signs of life

op

helbob · April 19, 2019

3 more pics of the castle mall, a famous place

diznax · April 19, 2019

I didn't take this in Thailand, but it is certainly abandoned-building related, and I started this thread so hopefully that gives me some flexibility ???? . I just returned to Bangkok from a few weeks in Ukraine, where the highlight of the trip was a 4 day 'unofficial' trek into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. We hiked on average 30km per day, usually at night to avoid security in the area. It was by no means an easy trek, but it was one of the greatest adventures I've ever had. Wild animals in the zone are thriving in the absence of man, including herds of endangered Przewalski's Horses, a dozen of which ran us by at sunset on our last day. Unfortunately the organized (legal) tours do not allow you to enter any buildings in Pripyat & you don't really get to see anything. So, the only way to document the area is to enter the zone illegally with experienced guides & trek long distances. If you're caught, you basically pay a bribe and are 'escorted' out. Anyway, I'll try and post more later once I've done processing them (have drone footage as well), but here is an image that I shot just after sunset on the roof of a high rise in Pripyat, the city that once housed 43,000 people, now empty and eerily quiet. That's the Chernobyl reactor in the background, housed in it's new protective containment structure, a true engineering marvel. I've posted more on my fb & ig pages for those interested. Thanks for viewing

Halfaboy · April 20, 2019

Interesting ! Looking forward to next contributions.

By the way, did you carry devices to measure radio active radiation and if so what were the readings ?

Assurancetourix · April 20, 2019

12 hours ago, diznax said:

Pripyat, the city that once housed 43,000 people,

those who did not die in Pipryat have been rehoused in Slavutich where engineers from many European nationalities, Italians, English, French people live. They work all week on the reactor of Chernobyl and return to Slavutich for WE

Slavutich april 2005

diznax · April 20, 2019

4 hours ago, Halfaboy said:

Interesting ! Looking forward to next contributions.

By the way, did you carry devices to measure radio active radiation and if so what were the readings ?

Yes, I brought my own radiometer & the guides had theirs as well. Below are some readings from different locations/objects. The first one is from the closest point that we got to the reactor, within 1km. The lights in the background are on the reactor. The reading is just over 4 µSv (microsieverts). For comparison, a typical chest x-ray is 100 µSv, or 0.10 milliseiverts. The second reading is from a moose skull, which has a high radiation reading for bones, but of course the animal lived in the zone all it's life so it's unsurprising, and it's likely that this animal died of natural causes (or predator attack). Given the sheer number of animal footprints and scat that I saw, not to mention the sounds of wolves, elk, moose, wild horses, boar and other animals we heard in the forest, it would seem that the wildlife has adapted to the radiation and is doing well in the absence of people. The third reading is from a discarded piece of military machinery that was likely used in the cleanup. It maxed out my radiometer. The other general readings from different locations in the area were low to nonexistant. Certain surfaces, like the tops of buildings in Pripyat, had high readings. I wouldn't want to spend a lot of time in the area (and certainly wouldn't go around licking surfaces!), but spending a few days walking around the zone poses little risk. The real danger with this area would be the cumulative exposure over time. The final image is of the wild horses we saw on the last day. It's not the greatest picture but the best I could do given the distance and my gear, still a special moment. The horses were released in the zone in the 90's, around 10 or so were put in as an experiment. Now there are hundreds. Nature tends to do quite well without people around.

JaiLai · April 26, 2019

On 5/4/2017 at 10:08 AM, diznax said:

Apologies as these photos are not of Thailand, but I've been out of the country for a month and this thread seems to have died down, so I thought I'd share some of my recent pictures (more than the allowed number, I know, sorry.)

I've been in the US a month visiting family (returning to Bangkok soon), and have been given the access to shoot some superb abandoned sites in Texas and in my home state of Arkansas, including several sites that are on the national register of historic places. Attached are a 3 urbex photos that I've taken

I finish my trip with a solo exhibition of my Thailand 'abandonia' work on Friday in Hot Springs, AR for which I'm very grateful for the opportunity.

The abandoned sites that I shot in the past month include an 87-year old Gregorian-style abandoned orphanage, a former children's tuberculosis sanatorium, a 16-floor Art Deco Medical Arts building from 1929, an underground 1920's bowling alley once frequented by Al Capone & Lucky Luciano (only remaining feature is the scoreboard with a supposed nom de guerre of Al Capone himself), an abandoned minor league baseball stadium, a former pecan company/boxing arena/KKK meeting hall(yikes), a 1912 art deco-style electrical plant, a former early 20th bordello, an 80-year old derelict rural church at a cemetery, and some notorious hotels/casinos from the early 20th century which are rumored to be haunted.

More of the building series are here: http://www.daxward.com/Portfolio

these pictures are amazing!

faraday · April 26, 2019

Thank you Diznax, really appreciate it.

Will we ever know how many people died in Chernobyl?

I remember the 'Daily Fail' saying 20,000....

Assurancetourix · April 27, 2019

11 hours ago, faraday said:

Will we ever know how many people died in Chernobyl?

And how many died sometimes many years after because of radiations ....

Those who didn't died immediatly they were relogated to Slavutich and many died there ..

gomangosteen · April 30, 2019

Revisiting my post #9 in this thread, yesterday went for a walk around the grounds of the abandoned hotel complex at the entrance to Namtok Phliu National Park.

And a second theory, I'd previously been told it was due to 1997 financial crash, yesterday told it was built illegally on national park land; either way, it will never be completed.

Actually two separate, matching buildings I hadn't seen the second one further along and more obscured by the trees.

I didn't venture inside, the resident dog population did not seem to be very inviting.