Lopburi Travel Blogs

May 9, 2008 Just one day trip to this city, Lopburi where the monkey lives :) We went to the monkey temple or the formal name is Phra pang sam yod. I don't understand why does the monkey always stay in the temple? How do they know that the temple is the best place and safe for them? How do the…

I really had awesome times traveling with Bennie (Bmatital) and Ying (aznfunghi). We've been to Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia. There we've met new friends!! I like to share my pics and clips with you how much fun we had and so many beautiful places we visited.

So I left Kanchanburi with a local bus heading for Supanburi, and then for Lopburi - the monkey town! This is one of the oldest city in Thailand with a lot of ancient ruins. But ruins you can find everywhere in Thailand, what makes this city special is the monkeys !It is a 2 hour trip that took me …

I'm sure the number of views on this blog aren't rising as quickly as they used to. Time to pick up the pace. I NEARLY GOT KILLED BY A MONKEY, PEOPLE!Not really. And if I had it would have been my own silly fault for going to Lopburi in the first place. Those little simian bastards can carry rabies…

After a short train ride of one hour I arrived in Lopburi. Somehow I already liked this town better than Ayuthaya (the people seem more friendly). I'm staying in a Chinese-style hotel (completely tiled room with white tiles) not far from the station. It does not have much atmosphere, but it's clea…

I was up at the crack of dawn this morning ready for an early train ride.  I got rid of dawn first though (boom boom!).  I was very pleasantly surprised by the efficiency and comfort of the Thai railway service.  Maybe I just got lucky?  Maybe it was just because it was a m…

No shopping for today.  We’d intended this day to see nature & experience ancient towns.   Jof & her friends picked us up with a rented van.  Half of our day was to be spent in Lopburi, about 2 hours from Bangkok and the other half in Ayutthaya.  During the en…

We are heading to Northern Thailand, to hopefully avoid the last of the monsoons.  We are in Lopburi which is famous for being inundated with moneys.  We have not seen too many so we are wondering what happened to them.  I think that they may have "relocated" some of them. I hope t…

and with good reason.It is full of monkeys. For me, it was too many monkeys. I was scared that at any moment they might form an impromptu monkey army and held Em and I hostage for better bananas or more windscreen wipers or whatever it is that monkeys desire.  We got into Lopburi station at 3a…

Needed to get away from the cold of Canada.

We hebben een rare nacht gehad. We waren moe en wilden vroeger slapen omdat we vandaag vroeg de trein gingen nemen naar Lopburi, de zoveelste hoofdstad van Thailand, of zoals het rijk vroeger heette: Siam. Het kwam ons wel goed uit dat buiten een storm losgebarsten was en iedereen naar binnen vluch…

2007 four-week vacation to explore a part of the world that I've dreamed about visiting since I was a child. More importantly, it's the first trip that I had to entirely finance on my own - I feel like such an old person!

What a lovely country. I went with a group of people I have never met before! Most of them were couples in their mid 40th - 50th .... very interesting! OKAY got the pictures - text will follow.....

The bus ride from Nakhon Ratchasima to Lopburi was a long boring bus ride. I left my hotel at like 7:00 only to find that the 7:30 bus was cancelled, so I had to hang around the bus station till like 9:00. The bus ride took 3 1/2 hours before arriving at Lopburi bus station.I originally planned to …

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