Golf in Thailand.

 

Thailand hosts some superb golf courses and this is a picture of the Bangpra course located about 1 hour from Bangkok going towards Pattaya. This is the view from the club house.

I am playing at a the Emerald course today in Bang Chang on the Eastern seaboard, which is a very nice links course with undulating fairways and tidy greens. I will post some pic’s later today.

Classic Thai style house, Bangkok, Thailand.

I took this picture at the Bangkok ancient city site, which is about one hour from central Bangkok.
This is a typical stilted Thai style house, which is designed to keep it cool, free from flooding and also to keep the ‘nasties’ out.

Thai Cambodia Border conflict festers

Border conflict festers

This is becoming a never ending story which is frankly quite worrying for the people that live near the disputed temple. My wife's family live around 40 minutes from the disputed site.

My picture of the Preah Vihear temple.

What are your views?

Travelling Day

I have had quite a busy day today with loads of travel involved. I flew from Shanghai to Shenzen at 7.30AM and then back to Shanghai at 12 noon. It seems crazy but China Eastern airlines would not let me change the route of the ticket, so I will have to leave via the same route as I entered China.
So now I sit in Shanghai, Pudong airport until my flight is leaving at 9.40PM. 6 hours waiting in the airport is not funny, but could be worse, it could have been 7, better to look on the bright side of things even though I am knackered..
So all being well I will arrive in Bangkok at 1.30AM and then travel another 1.50 hours home. I think time for a good rest tomorrow, but I think it will be hard to sleep during the day time, so maybe we will head for the beach.
What do you think?

White Reclining Buddha, Chinese temple near Silverlake, Pattaya.

 

This is my wife’s Buddha as she was born on a Tuesday. in Thailand there is a different Buddha for every day of the week. This is a great temple to visit and contains many Thai and Chinese Buddha figures.

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Chinese Buddhist and other temples, Yuncheng, China

1300 years old 'iron bull'
There are 4 iron bull's at this historic site that represent the 4 ancient nations of China and they are estimated to be around 1300 years old. The bulls secured a huge river bridge spanning the mighty Yellow river. The river has since changed it's course and left this now dry land with this wonderful sight. It's amazing how they could forge iron to this standard 1300 years ago..

The gardens at the iron bull site.

Iron bull site entrance

Model of temple

Ill fated lovers at the love temple. She was rich and he was poor so the marriage was forbidden by Ying Ying's mother. Ying Ying's the woman by the way.

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Big drum housing. Bang he huge drum and get good luck.

The big bell. Ring the bell and get good luck.

Lovers temple entrance

Lovers temple

Elephants at the entrance

'Gaunli' temple main building. Guanli was a hero in China and was a giant of a man wielding an axe that weighed 1500 Kgs

'Guanli' temple

Entrance to 'Guanli' temple