Isan Explorer

14/04/2023

Sawatdee Bee Mai - Happy Thai New Year from Khon Kaen.

01/04/2023

Early morning offerings for the Boon Pha Wet celebration.

www.timsthailand.com/boon-pha-wet/

23/03/2022

Phu Phrabat Historical Park is one of my favorite places in Thailand. It's protected because of the many ancient sites, but it's also really beautiful. Full of weirdly eroded rocks.

24/10/2021

Tai Dam dancing is really cool. There are some Tai Dam villages in Loei province.

https://youtu.be/3hm2BtBWOTg?t=115

วงคนอีสาน จากมหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฎเลย จังหวัดเลย แสดง "คนไทดำ" ในการประกวดวงดนตรีพื้นเมือง ชิงถ้วยพระราชทานสม....

23/08/2021

Saw iridescent clouds at Khon Kaen's Wat Thung Setti at sunrise this morning. Not sure I've ever seen them so vibrant as this.

https://earthsky.org/earth/iridescent-clouds-have-rainbow-colors/

01/06/2021

Tim was recently interviewed about Isan on the Talk Travel Asia podcast.

https://talktravelasia.com/2021/06/01/ep-125-discover-isan-travel-tips-for-northeastern-thailand-from-lonely-planet-author-tim-bewer/

What to do and where to go in Isan, Northeastern Thailand: Travel tips from Lonely Planet author Tim Bewer on Talk Travel Asia podcast.

18/05/2021

This family in Amphoe Mueang Khon Kaen is raising 13,000 ducks, all female. Every day at about 6.30am they walk them out to a rice field to feed and at 5pm they are brought back to their pen. The ducks are one month old in this video and at five months they will be sold to egg farms. The ducks being carried are sick or injured, not dead, and will be taken to a small pen for medicine.

This family in Amphoe Mueang Khon Kaen is raising13,000 ducks, all female. Every day at about 6.30am they walk them out to a rice field to feed and at 5pm th...

05/05/2021

Offerings for wishes granted at a shrine at a hospital in Khon Kaen.

13/04/2021

Happy Thai New Year - Sawatdi Bee Mai. There are no water wars this year, thanks to Covid19, and while I rather like the peace and quiet, I really am looking forward to next year having a Songkran like I did two years ago.

Songkran, the Thai New Year, is best known for the water wars that take over whole towns. But the core the celebration is family and community.

06/04/2021

Boon Pha Wet is an Isan celebration of generosity. One of the key activities is a parade with a mobile mural of the Vessantara Jataka. (www.thejatakatales.com/vessantara-jataka-547)