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valentine wrote:Hi folks, just thought I would remind everyone that expressed an interest in the fireball festival at Phon Pisai, that its only 3 weeks away, October 17/18th this year.Accomodation gets booked up early.
Very few hotels around so, would suggest that if you are coming up get your rooms now. A lot of people book a year in advance.
I live up here and I don't even go out due to the fact of over 100,000 people.
But, it's a great show and watching the faces on the Thais remind me when I was a kid in the states on the 4th of July.
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A seat in one of the sala,i guess in the morning.
A seat on the concrete steps,in the afternoon.
A seat on the river bank,early evening.
The local kids are already in the swing of it,throwing huge bangers over my garden wall.If i close my eyes and ignore the heat i could be in the UK leading up to November 5th.
Marcus
A seat on the concrete steps,in the afternoon.
A seat on the river bank,early evening.
The local kids are already in the swing of it,throwing huge bangers over my garden wall.If i close my eyes and ignore the heat i could be in the UK leading up to November 5th.
Marcus
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Accomidations were full last week. This is a real big deal all along the river, we tried for rooms from NKP to Nong Kia. I was trying for some rooms for a party for the bike group where you could actually see soemthing. but it's titled something else the illuminated boat display, on the 17th and 18 th. So I'm going to try to book some rooms for 2006. The guys from the bike club are camping out in Pompasai someplace I'm told at a tobacco factory. I have to pass this year the old body ain't up to it yet.valentine wrote:Hi folks, just thought I would remind everyone that expressed an interest in the fireball festival at Phon Pisai, that its only 3 weeks away, October 17/18th this year.Accomodation gets booked up early.
Darn been here three years and finally got grasp of what is happeneing up there sounds great,
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At this time of year there are also trails left in the mud on the riverbank by what i would guess is a large turtle,but to the locals it is Naga coming ashore.Great to see the faces of children as grandad shows them the monster's trail.The good thing is that such stories keep the kids away from the water.
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The Naga
It was a good find, Bob! Here's some more on the Naga and the fireballs:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/ ... 67,00.html
http://www.thailandroad.com/trevor/naga.html
http://www.cfz.org.uk/expeditions/00naga/naga2.htm
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/ ... 67,00.html
http://www.thailandroad.com/trevor/naga.html
http://www.cfz.org.uk/expeditions/00naga/naga2.htm
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The banners are up,the lights are in place and the beer Chang tents have arrived so we must be close now.Chang is the sponsor of the festival so beer drinkers are made to suffer. Plenty of shops have fridges outside with decent beers in though.
Went down the fair last night and it has three of the biggest bouncy castles you will ever see,the one at the very rear could a hundred kids no trouble. Another has a blow up slide thirty foot high.
Went down the fair last night and it has three of the biggest bouncy castles you will ever see,the one at the very rear could a hundred kids no trouble. Another has a blow up slide thirty foot high.
Beer Chang
Perhaps relatively irrelevant, but I read somewhere early this year that the company behind Beer Chang made a bid to get themselves onto the equivalent of the Thai stock exchange. If I remember rightly, they were shot down by the government--apparently, the company's image image was too 'unsalubrious' for their perceived image of what Thailand should represent!
Garnet & Jack
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