Wan Macha Fish Sanctuary
We visited what’s possibly the greatest tourist attraction in Mahasarakham again (well, besides the new Big C, of course).
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A Thai Fish Sanctuary
Last weekend, a student called up and said he wanted to show me a local sight. “Well,” I figured, “whatever it is, it should beat the hell out of tipping water buffaloes on yet another Saturday afternoon.” So the wife and I got in the car and picked up said student and his girl at […]
Christmas Day 2011
I got around to pulling photos from the camera today, so here’s what we did for Christmas this year: Yes, the fish sanctuary/Buddhist temple. This is one of Max’s favorite places to visit now.
Tilt-shift Thailand Vid
I’m so gonna do this at our giant catfish sanctuary and with a herd of water buffalo..
An Island of 31 Square Miles
15 years ago, there were rumors of a lone wild man living in the Amazon forest. The rumors were confirmed by sightings and, eventually, contact by Brazilian government officials who determined that he was the last survivor of an uncontacted tribe. To protect him, they created a 31 square mile sanctuary which was meant to […]
Monkey Time at Kosamphi Forest Park
A few weeks ago we decided to go out for a drive. It was time to take Max for his first visit to the monkey park in the nearby town of Kosum Phisai, so we put his car seat in the trusty old Kujira and were on our way. We took the Kujira instead of […]
I scream
This has nothing to do with the photo, but last week we went to the fish sanctuary again and suddenly found ourselves surrounded on five sides by a billy goat, a baby goat, a huge yellow frog, a stray dog, and a tethered brown cow. It was quite exciting because we had a loaf of […]
What is it, mommy?
@ the fish sanctuary: A better photo of it:
Murasaki Inu
A lifetime ago (13 or 14 years ago to be a bit more exact) I sat in a stuffy classroom in Tenri, Japan, and started penning my first essay in Japanese. Not having yet learned any kanji, I wrote it entirely in the phonetic alphabet known as hiragana. It began something like this: One day […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
… words heard from not a single student today. Surprise, surprise. I think I’ve actually seen a real live turkey here in Mahasarakham, up in the forest near the fish sanctuary, but I’m too lazy to be bothered with the killin’ and pluckin’ and dressin’ and stuffin’ and roastin’ – Thanksgiving to me is more […]