We played Thana City today since they have a special on Mondays. Being back in Bangkok meant that the course was very crowded. Since on Neil and Bruce played, they put another golfer with us, he was a very nice Japanese restaurant owner named Koji. The resort was a gated community and had the best […]
Phra Nakhon Si – Ayutthaya
One of the biggest Khmer Ruins in Thailand is in Ayutthaya, which is just a small diversion on the road from Pak Chong to Bangkok. Bruce wanted to see this last ruin, but the rest of the group wasn’t interested anymore, so while Bruce walked around it, they sat outside and read books. There loss. […]
Ban Mai Vintage
It is not often that I would do a post on a hotel we have stayed at, but this one was so quirky that it deserves a post. When we first arrived, we couldn’t find reception since there was so much clutter. When we were taken to our rooms, we weaved our way around clutter. […]
Kirimaya Golf Resort
We are now in Pak Chong, which is about 2 hours East of Bangkok. This town is a huge holiday destination for Thai people and have many tourist themed parks. We couldn’t really find much we wanted to do here, except play golf and use it as a staging point between golf games and Bruce’s […]
Mountain Creek Golf Club
We left Korat this morning and travelled to Pak Chong. This is only a 1hour 40 minute drive so we stopped at Mountain Creek Golf Club on the way. The people we met at Korat Golf Club weren’t very impressed with this golf course, but their main complaint was the beer prices, so we weren’t […]
Korat Country Club
We had a game booked at Rooks Khorat Golf Club (note the spelling of Khorat varies, so both are acceptable). I read some reviews yesterday and they were not good. I looked at the map on Hole 19 (great program if you don’t already use it) and the course looked dubious. We drove down the […]
Phimai Historical Park – near Korat
We left Khon Kaen and were driven to Korat, via another Khmer ruin. This site contains the Prasat Hin Phimai (tower or temple), one of the most important Mahayana Buddhist temples in Thailand, dating back about 1000 years. On the drive we stopped at a service station for a stretch and bathroom break. We were […]
Singha Park Golf Club – Khon Kaen
A 20 minute drive from our hotel took us to SPGC. This is a course owned by Singha Brewery, which is situated next door. Rosie wasn’t feeling too well, she never copes with constant air-conditioning well and had a bit of a head cold and fever. She stayed home and slept all morning. Debbie decided […]
Ku Kaew Khmer Ruins
Today we went to see the first of our planned Khmer ruins, there are several on the Khmer Highway that went from Angkor in Cambodia, through Thailand and in to Lao. There wasn’t much left here, but apparently it was a type of medical facility and Wat. There were also the remains of a tower […]
Travelling from Lao to Thailand
Today we left Lao to go into Thailand. It was a bit confusing for us, but we thought we would muddle our way through. Neither taxi driver could take us over the bridge from the Lao checkpoint to the Thai checkpoint, so we were dropped off at the Lao checkpoint, walked with our luggage through […]