A weekend trip to the mountainous area near Khao Yai National Park (NE of Bangkok), and a visit to the new Bangkok Art and Cultural Center.
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With 6 people packed in, we headed up to Khao Yai National Park. It's actually a World Heritage site.
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Once arriving at Ohm's house, Kom and Ohm rush to hook up the iPod to speakers.
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With music blasting, the next task is obvious: arrange some flowers from the garden in a vase.
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View and Kom puzzle over how to arrange the grape-like flowers in a vase.
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The final product.
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This guy came hidden in one of the flowers.
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The main road in Khao Yai National Park. It was very steep and generally up-hill.
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A glimpse of the view, and how large (and hilly) the area is.
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I guess those posts prevent cars from driving too far.
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The monkeys thought the street would be an appropriate place to hang out.
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I particularly like this guy's expression.
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Massage mom, ignore baby.
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Mom's always having to multi-task: groom teen and nurse kid.
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Apparently they're not afraid of cars.
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Salt pits to which, apparently, the wildlife come to feed. See any?
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Finally, the water fall (if you can call it that).
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At the top of the water fall: Petch, Ohm, View and a tall outcast.
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The metaphoric view from the top. Can you spot the swimming farangs?
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This guy must've had second thoughts.
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The two Doctors from MIT.
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And here we have the famed, hyped waterfall.
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Walking (carefully) down to the base of the waterfall.
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Guess what? The waterfall, from the base!
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The farangs enjoying the water.
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It's curious that our heads aren't more wet...
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A tree taking over a tree?
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Group shot!
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Got all this now?
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Having some fun, back at the house.
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Ohm and View start the hi-tech barbecue.
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The chef and his domain.
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Say... how does a BBQ work again?
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Enjoying some vegetarian fare while the bbq smokes away in the corner.
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Putting on my mosquito protection.
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This is what happens when you try to grill an egg.
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And this is why you should not grill corn directly on hot coals.
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Deer in headlights.
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Ohm's house, during daylight.
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Obviously, that's a face perched on that cliff.
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A banana fan.
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House available. Takers?
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A winery, complete with artificial Italian countryside abode.
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No idea if there are actually any grapes growing in there!
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The masterful garden sculpture.
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And the rest of the garden.
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Mountains loom in the background.
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More winery, more artificiality.
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The Guardian of the "Grapes".
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Is the backdrop convincing?
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And the voice came booming from the skies above: don't trip, it warned.
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Some busy bees.
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We stopped at a dairy, supposedly famous for its fresh ice cream. Umm... I think someone should help them with their name.
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Their boney mascot.
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And their take-away product.
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The largest bill boards I've seen!
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An elephant building, of course.
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The new Bangkok Art and Cultural Center downtown.
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Its inner architecture is vaguely reminiscent of a certain circular art gallery in NYC.
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"Always Roaming with a Hungry Heart", an exhibit of the Princess's photography from the past 6 years.
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A welcome, progressive policy...
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... of which this guy's taking full advantage.
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Enjoying photos from around the world.
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Recognize these places? The ducklings in Boston Common, Trinity Church in Copley Square, a street musician in front of the Coop, and some random mountains not in Boston.
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A view of Siam Square and the merging of the sky train lines.
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On our way out, we took a pit stop in heaven, apparently.
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A view of the interior architecture looking down from above...
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... looking across from the middle ...
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... and looking up from the bottom.
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Street art, outside the Art Center.
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Mangos in a bago.
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My classmates and teacher.
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And now they write what?