At the Airplane Park Korat, you can go onboard a stationary, retired Thai Airways 747. This might be the first time I realized how truly huge these planes are. Screw the bean counters at Boeing, but to all the people who build these planes: Respect!!!
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20250112-1159 |
Grateful to still be outside the cage looking in... These are the apparently fun-loving หมีหมา / dog bears (Malayan Sun Bear) at the Korat Zoo.
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I am told that people enjoy eating red ant eggs from red ant nests like the one in the video below. I have not yet tried them, and that's okay.
Let's be honest. Thailand is hotter than hell most of the time. But there is that rare period in parts of December and January when it is relatively less hot. This year, we are blessed with an abundance of relatively less hot weather. Sounds great, right?
Wrong! Due to atmospheric conditions at this time of year, if the temperature goes down, the pollution goes up. You can still go outside. You just have to wear an N95 mask. Perhaps that's one of the benefits of Covid. We got used to wearing face masks.
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This is the worst air quality reading I've seen so far: 196 on 20250107-0825.
Sitting inside with the air purifiers running, I could be anywhere, even in outer space. Space Station Thailand, indeed!
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20250107-0825 |
At the Airplane Park Korat, you can go onboard a stationary, retired Thai Airways 747. This might be the first time I realized how truly hug...
