Abandoned, Derelict, Decaying Locations Around Thailand

[diznax]

On 4/26/2019 at 8:49 PM, JaiLai said:

these pictures are amazing!

Thanks so much, it's what I enjoy going most.

[ThaiHenning]

From the Naklua area in Pattaya. One looks like a hotel that was not finished. View of Naklua bay. In the other building it has moved in people. Has water and tv.

[helbob]

[helbob]

Pis in the last post: The sunken temple in the lake and the temple on the island at Sankhla Buri

[Assurancetourix]

On 4/19/2019 at 11:21 PM, diznax said:

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 

 

Interesting post ;

As I wrote on or in another post, I went to Slavutich in 2005 or 06, don't remember exactly .., this city which was built to relocate the survivals of Pripyat .

I have some argentic photos of Slavutich and Chernigov shot at that date ...

 

Abandonned ships on and close the Desna river in Chernigov

 

 

 

[diznax]

Below are some more images from my trip through the Chernobyl exclusion zone.  The full series of 9 galleries from different locations are here on my website if anyone's interested.  I wish I could have spent more time at each location & come out with some more compelling imagery, but the trek had to be fairly rushed as there is a lot of ground to cover.  Had a feature in the (UK tabloid) Mail last week (and also Spanish/Portuguese/MSN/Daily Star).  Currently reading Midnight in Chernobyl, an excellent account of how the reactors and city of Pripyat came to be, as well as a dive into the abyss of Soviet-era bureaucracy & secrecy.  The new HBO series on Chernobyl is also supposed to be good.  Thanks for viewing, apologies for the 5-image post, each is less than 1MB so hopefully it won't lag too badly.

[diznax]

I meant to add info regarding the images:

1. A propaganda mural at a (formerly) secret military base that housed the Volkhov anti-aircraft missile defense system.  I believe this was the former canteen.
2. A science classroom at Pripyat Middle School Number 3.  
3. The Azure swimming pool
4. The Pripyat city jail/police station, remained open for another 11 years after the accident.
5. Nursery School Number 3 in Pripyat.  Dolls are creepy, I especially hate them now after this trip, there were so many.

[Assurancetourix]

Some more photos of Slavutich - june 17 2005 - silver prints with Pentax and Tamron 70-210 f / 2,8-4

 

strawberry seller at the outdoor market

 

 

First man on the left , it's me 14 years ago ... ; in the middle, the strawberries seller and on the right my best french friend who married a woman living there : Slavutich

 

 

two of the many European engineers working on the Chernobyl site and their wife or fiancee

 

 

The market in front of the railway line

 

 

The park...

 

 

 

[helbob]

This abandoned restaurant with a few bungalows work only 2 years. The restaurant has a nice outlook because it was built on a mountain.

Edited May 12, 2019 by helbob

[Chrisdoc]

Does anyone have any news about what is happening with the Ocean Dream shipwreck off Laem Chabang. They seem to be working on it or were and have finished. I guess taking anything of value they can find.

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[edgarfriendly]

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.

any chance of a pm of this ones location?

 

Also love the house in trat!!

 

 

Edited May 15, 2019 by edgarfriendly
adding trat house link

[helbob]

This place is a virgin, i will not share it, sorry.

In the past, I have shared many beautiful places with people with the result that all were broken

Edited May 18, 2019 by helbob

[helbob]

A big building in the mountains.

Edited June 2, 2019 by helbob

[Chazar]

On 2/1/2017 at 3:11 PM, Jai Dee said:

I was there for the opening!

Shame to see it like this now. 

I  hope you didn't pay for lifetime membership!!

[Chazar]

On 4/27/2019 at 9:43 AM, Assurancetourix said:

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 ..

i  saw a  documentary  somewhere  and  the  deaths  were way  less  than  they  imagined.

[Assurancetourix]

In a Wat in the middle of nowhere not very far from my village in Issan

 

 

 

 

[helbob]

Old mining wagon

[diznax]

Hi, I wanted to share info on a charity exhibition I've organized with the Bangkok Photographer's Group next month.  We're raising money for the Pick-a-Pet4Home animal rescue organization based in Bangkok.  There are 24 photos from 21 photographers, selected from 287 submitted images, so it should be a great show.  I have a couple of mine from the Chernobyl zone up for sale.  There's an opening party on Aug 3rd at Cajutan Swedish restaurant on Sukhumvit 18, and the show will run through the 31st of August.  We're trying to raise money for a great cause, they currently shelter around 110 dogs and 30 cats, and are always working to get them adopted.  Big thanks to anyone who can stop by for the opening party or anytime to see the exhibition.

[Assurancetourix]

Diznax , do you know this site :

 

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/an-abandoned-bangkok-shopping-mall-hides-a-fishy-secret/

[diznax]

On 8/25/2019 at 10:45 AM, Assurancetourix said:

Diznax , do you know this site :

 

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/an-abandoned-bangkok-shopping-mall-hides-a-fishy-secret/

Hi, yeah I got in there about 3 years ago.  No idea if it's been fully demolished or not

[gk10002000]

On 1/4/2017 at 8:18 PM, Morch said:

 

Doug and Tony must be somewhere in there.

haha.  I get that reference to the Time Tunnel TV show from the 60s

[kickstart]

The temple that has been in the news ,(even made the "Metro" a free London news paper).

Wat Nong Buawa Yai, got left when they built the Passak Juansit Dam ,in Pattananikom,Lopburi ,this year the dam is only 5% full and the former tempel is now showing for the first time in 25 years .

It has become very popular many visitors   all they to make merit .

The woman with the table is selling lottery tickets ,for 100 baht/ticket not the normal 80 baht/ticket  ,and she was doing a good trade .

I use to work in this area before the dam got built ,so it was a good day out  all round, and the temple is almost in the al of the dam 

[kickstart]

23 hours ago, kickstart said:

The temple that has been in the news ,(even made the "Metro" a free London news paper).

Wat Nong Buawa Yai, got left when they built the Passak Juansit Dam ,in Pattananikom,Lopburi ,this year the dam is only 5% full and the former tempel is now showing for the first time in 25 years .

It has become very popular many visitors   all they to make merit .

The woman with the table is selling lottery tickets ,for 100 baht/ticket not the normal 80 baht/ticket  ,and she was doing a good trade .

I use to work in this area before the dam got built ,so it was a good day out  all round, and the temple is almost in the al of the dam 

As a PS ,I heard today that the dam management   wanted to lift and remove the Buddha statue to somewhere where it could be seen all the time ,but the locales said no and ,so I was told they  blocked the road  and stopped the removing of the statue ,they said with  all the people coming to visit the old temple they lively hood will be stopped ,ie sellers  selling flowers and incense sticks for merit making ,plus of cause all the food sellers.

I said in about 6 weeks it should all be under water again,so one will have any access at all.   

 

 

 

 

 

I said in  about 6 weeks  it should all be under water again .

  

[diznax]

On 8/31/2019 at 9:08 PM, kickstart said:

As a PS ,I heard today that the dam management   wanted to lift and remove the Buddha statue to somewhere where it could be seen all the time ,but the locales said no and ,so I was told they  blocked the road  and stopped the removing of the statue ,they said with  all the people coming to visit the old temple they lively hood will be stopped ,ie sellers  selling flowers and incense sticks for merit making ,plus of cause all the food sellers.

I said in about 6 weeks it should all be under water again,so one will have any access at all.   

 

 

 

 

 

I said in  about 6 weeks  it should all be under water again .

  

It's such an interesting place, though sad because of all of the trash strewn about.  I was there last month, noticed all the vendors selling the usual food with plastic containers but no bins in sight.  It's a sad place really, seen as a 'lucky' place to make merit/buy lottery tickets but represents so much of the way that we've treated the environment, the effects of climate change & plastic waste on display.  Also got some drone footage.

[Assurancetourix]

On 9/5/2019 at 8:39 AM, diznax said:

Also got some drone footage.

Nice , very nice...

 

One or two days ago in the middle of nowhere in Sakon Nakhon province ; it's inside a village ...

 

 

 

 

 

[Assurancetourix]

Another one , in the suburbs of Sawang Daen Din - shot today

 

 

[faraday]

The above picture makes me wonder...who lived there, was it a happy family with children running around?

 

Where are they all now?

[Khutan]

Such a fascinating topic

[Assurancetourix]

20 hours ago, faraday said:

The above picture makes me wonder...who lived there, was it a happy family with children running around?

 

Where are they all now?

 

There are many similar houses all over Thailand; even in the center of big cities like Udon Thani or Khon Kaen, and of course in Bangkok.

 

On the other hand, why are these houses abandoned?
where do their owners live?
Who lived here?

I believe that many Thai people imagine that the grass is greener elsewhere;
that the problems they have encountered here, they will not find them elsewhere.
It is of course totally false; when you leave a place you take your problems with you to another place.

Edited September 11, 2019 by Assurancetourix

[Andrew Dwyer]

 
There are many similar houses all over Thailand; even in the center of big cities like Udon Thani or Khon Kaen, and of course in Bangkok.
 
On the other hand, why are these houses abandoned?
where do their owners live?
Who lived here?
I believe that many Thai people imagine that the grass is greener elsewhere;
that the problems they have encountered here, they will not find them elsewhere.
It is of course totally false; when you leave a place you take your problems with you to another place.

Yes very true.

I live in a moobahn and a few newish houses are just abandoned, people cannot make the payments and just up and leave.
One 2 story house, with a small shop attached, was abandoned overnight, one day it was a family home with kids playing outside and the mother serving in the shop, next day totally cleared, boxes and stuff strewn around. A month later, bank officials and a guy with bolt cutters gained entry, was the talk of the moobahn !!

House opposite me also just abandoned overnight by a young couple obviously in financial difficulties ( many visits by bank officials ). Official police document in letter box, got the gf to take a look [emoji51].

Next to the moobahn is a lot for cars reclaimed due to lack of payments, mainly pickups, huge turnover !!

Ease of finance ?, trying to keep up with the Jones’s ? or just bit off more than they could chew ?

Who knows what causes so many bad decisions, but Thais reluctance to buy a second hand house creates a large amount of newish houses available yet empty, and the never ending building of new houses continues !!