Offering to Buddha
Temple at the Grand Palace
The Grand Palace
My attempt at a Carrot Fern
Yay, it’s an elephant and I am feeding her ! WOW!
Hanging Duck
The View
Kata Beach
The Butterfly
Yellow Curry – Thai Style
Gai Pad Khing
Fried Bananas?
The top of Wat Chalong Temple
Introducing Gilbert de Stigter, our adopted Gibbon.
Pon holds my Spring Roll Creation
The Sea Eagle
Spicy Glass Noodle Salad
Look who’s coming for breakfast!
Freshly chopped and ready for the coating our fried fish
Board, Knife and remnants of the tomato I carved
Craig feeds one of the Elephants affected by blindness
My decorative delight
That’s right – they are eating my feet
Wat Chalong Temple
Head first
The Garden
The fountains
Entranceway to the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project
Asiatique by night
Prawn salad prior to the mouth burning incident.
Bang Pae Waterfall
Bring me the food!
Yes I am cycling on the same road as that big truck!
Chicken with house roasted Cashew Nuts
Green Curry and Roti
Craig fits right in
The rather large lunch we lovingly prepared for ourselves.
The group as we set off
Kata Beach, Phuket
The Restaurant
Taking the ferry
Assumption Cathedral
Wat Arun Temple
Fish Spa
The End result
Red, green, big or small here there were chillies galore
The Vet visits and looks after a wound
Our roasted cashew nuts – cooked fresh in front of us by Pon
Craig at Karon Beach
Thai Curry Paste – the core ingredients.
Pointing us in the right direction
Walking around the Palace Terraces
Muddy Elephants
There goes the water!
The tangy and colourful sweet and sour Vegetables
A Lizard
Glass noodle Salad a la Craig
Curried Noodles
Elephants are free to Roam and enjoy their oasis
Bang Pae Waterfall
Our perfect Pandanus Parcels
All gone, and it was delicious!
The stunning Waterfall
A huge trail of ants at Bang Pae Waterfall
An empty pan.
Ta Da! Spicy Fish parcel
Flower Market
Taking a photo
A scooter for surf boards
Karon beach
A huge Spider
I can smell those bananas in your bag 🙂
Wat Arun Temple
A BABY ELEPHANT!
The entrance to Jim Thomson’s home
Our Kitten friend
Part of the Wat Chalong temple grounds
Giant Golden Buddha
Penang Curry made fresh
Third generation recipe Duck
Craig enjoys the pool
Feeding a beautiful Elephant
The Temple
Tomato Rose
Early in the morning at Kata Beach
Old Customs House
Those things are Elephant Ear Mushrooms – can you guess why?
They sure do have a sense of humor!
An Oasis of calm
The gorgeous baby elephant
Deep fried white fish with Chili and Basil topping
The raw ingredients
Held together only by two toothpicks, our fish parcels steamed for 30 minutes.
Angry Birds Chips
Look who we found enjoying the sun!
At the top of the waterfall
Pork and Cabbage Leaf soup
Steamed, Sticky? I bet I was about to find out.
Craig grinds and punds his way to curry paste
Pork Sausages
Asiatique
The oldest Elephant in the Park – 80 years old!
Tofu in Chiang Mai Market
Bangkok Food Tour
Pad Siew, a popular Thai noodle dish
Sitting in a restaurant on the food tour
Big Buddha
Standing near one of the Ponds at Jim Thomson’s house
Elephant Nature Park, Chiang Mai
Spring Rolls
That’s right I did climb up these steps
Gibbon Rehabilitation Project
Mango and Sticky Rice a la Ginga musings
The Steps
The Mahout
We are washing an elephant
Infused with Pandanus leaf, these sweet steamed banans and creamy coconut, topped off our meal perfectly.
Pad Thai from the Queen of Curries
Orchid Farm
Our Host hard at work
Buddha Bell
A collection of photos from our trip to Thailand.
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Ginga Musings, complete.
Love the photo story of your Thailand adventure! Looks like you had so much fun!!
Thanks we sure did! It’s a bit hard coming home 🙂