- Thailand Map
- First Trip
- 1993/94
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- Thailand Map
- Second Trip
- 2005/06
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- Map of Southeast Asia
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- View from the ‘Golden Mount’
- Temple over the roofs and
- skyscrapers of Bangkok
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- Brightly illuminated ‘Democracy Monument’ on Bangkok’s Thanon
Ratchadamnoen Klang Avenue
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- Khao San Road –
- the Capital’s ‘backpacker ghetto’
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- Fruit stall along the road
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- Street kitchen selling
- spring rolls in Khao San
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- Market stall in Bangkok. Everything
- is packed in plastic bags – not
- necessarily “environmental friendly”
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- Souvenir cart in a Temple in
- Nakhon Si Thammarat
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- Artificial teeth on stock on a
- Bangkok’s street market
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- Hand cart with baskets
- of any kind and size
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- „Burma“-Pier in Ranong where
- long-tailed boats leave over the
- Chan River for Kawthoung at the
- Southern “end” of Myanmar. Used
- very often for the “Thai-visa-run”
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- ‚Floating Market’ in Damnoen Saduak in the North of Samut Songkhram
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- The luxury longdistance busses are
- painted very brightly and eye catching
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- Toyota Thailand offers to service
- our LandCruiser in Bangkok
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Selling brooms |
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| Pattaya –
Thailand’s biggest tourist ghetto: |
- View over the bay and the city …..
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- ..... over the “Westerner’s
- (Farang) beach” .....
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- ..... and the traffic jam
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- The fishing fleet of Cha Am .....
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- ..... sorting out the daily catch,
- mostly octopus .....
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- ..... and fishing boats nearly
- as big as a skyscraper
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| In the harbor of Si
Racha: |
- Relaxing before the night shift .....
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- ..... making the account about
- the fish distribution .....
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- ..... and preparing fort the next catch
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- Fishing boats with piled up oyster cages
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- The sun is setting in Si Racha
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- Moslem village of Phang-nga
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- Rickshaws in Mae Sai, the most Northerly point of Thailand, bordering Myanmar
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- „Golden Triangle” at the Thailand-Burma-Laos border
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- Hat Chao Mai Beach National Park
- at the Andaman Sea
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- „James Bond” rock at
- Phang-nga National Park -
- shooting of “007’s” Dr. No
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- Sunset at Hat Chao Mai Beach
- at the Andaman Sea
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- View from Wat Suwanapradit
- Temple near Surat Thani
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- Working elephants trotting
- through Phattalung in the South
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- Bridge over the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi, on the way to
- the ‘Three Pagodas Pass’
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- River border crossing at Mae Sot
- to Myanmar (picture 1993).
- There is a road bridge today
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- Thai people are amazingly
- swimming in all their clothes
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- Another day is setting
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- The beach in Cha Am gets crowded
- on weekends with people escaping
- the mega city of Bangkok
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- West Coast near Nathon
- on Ko Samui
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- Fishing boat sets out for the night catch
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- Deserted beach in Pathiu on the
- East Coast near Chumphon
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- A tree that we saw re-flowering
- every couple of days
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- Camping on Fa Chi Hill Viewpoint (North of Ranong) with a
- sweeping view reaching Burma
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- Red, waxen flowers
- blooming on a high tree
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- Kra Isthmus – the narrowest point of
- the Malaysian Peninsula (barely 31 miles separates the Gulf of Thailand from
- the Indian Ocean). Just opposite is
- Myanmar, before also known as Burma
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- Making umbrellas in
- Bo Sang near Chiang Mai
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- Reporters and Fans at the
- Motor Expo 2005 in Bangkok
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- Orchids grow in abundance in Thailand
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- A cashew nut fruit in front
- of our bungalow in Ranong
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- Flowers of „Couroupita Guianensis“,
- the rare cannon ball tree, named
- after the look of its poisonous fruit
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- Rice terraces along the Thai-
- Burma border in the West
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- River village near
- Nakhon Sawan
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- Akha mountain village at the Thai-
- Burma border West of Mae Chan
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- Flowering coffee plant
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- Peaceful doves on a temple roof
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- Unloading of coconuts at Kuiburi – North
- of Prachuap Khirikhan - at the East Coast
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- Two boys at the Hot Springs
- in Ranong
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- Girl of a fishermen’s family in Cha Am
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- Boy practicing a traditional music instrument
- in a temple in Nakhon Si Thammarat
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| At the Hot Springs in
Ranong: |
- An elephant chilling out
- in the river bed .....
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- ..... Liliana bathing her leg in
- one of the three hot pools .....
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- ..... simple huts lining the river bank
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- A sweet girl of Ranong
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- Grandma and granddaughter
- at the Hot Springs in Ranong
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- Thai people love to take picnic at Ranong Canyon with their extended family
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| Sunsets – an
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- Articles in newspapers about us in Thailand:
- Interview: "
 ", Daily Newspaper "Daily News" - December
12, 2005
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