To Do List

This page is reminder list for me, a place where I shall list all the places I want to see, the things I want to do and culture I want to absorb.  Once I have been to a place, done an activity or experienced an event it shall be crossed off and linked to the post documenting the experience.   Please help me add to it, if you can recommend anything not on the list please do and add a comment below!

This list is in no particular order:

  • Watch Muay Thai Boxing
  • Buy a coffin for somebody  (Ruamkatanyu Foundation – Bangkok)
  • Visit a prison
  • Donate alms to a temple
  • Visit Phra Dhammakaya Temple
  • Attend the Buddhist Tattoo festival
  • Go to a shooting range
  • Learn Yoga
  • Learn Meditation
  • Visit Pattaya Music Festival
  • Visit a fortune teller
  • Visit the Maeklong Railway market
  • Celebrate Chinese New Year
  • Attend Loy Krathong Festival
  • Visit Bangkok China Town
  • Eat some insects
  • Visit floating markets
  • See Erawan Museum
  • Visit Sanctuary of Truth
  • Go to Sala Laew Ku
  • Visit Sukhothau
  • Visit Thai Elephant Orchestra in Lampang
  • Go caving near Ban Tham
  • Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Natalie’s Recommendation)
  • Learn the Thai Language (Thanks Catherine!)

 

 

  • http://bifftastic.blogspot.com Bifftastic

    Donate alms to a temple…

    What you might want to do as well as visiting a Wat or temple (which is very cool by the way!) and making merit, is to donate food or alms to the monks on their early morning rounds. When you get there, ask the Thai people where you are staying, tell them you want to give food to the monks in the morning. It’s a nice experience, many Thai people do it for special occasions like birthdays, or just generally to be mindful of the Buddhist precepts for the rest of the day.

    You basically wait outside your residence at the right time (early in the morning!) with food you’ve prepared, then the monks arrive, you place your offerings in their bowl and they recite some precepts to you.

    If you can find an active Wat, one that’s got some resident monks, they should be able to get you started on the meditation side of things,but I think you’ll have to take Catherine’s advice first and learn some of the language so you’ll know what they’re on about! :-)

    Yoga and meditation are life long practices, you start but you never finish!

    Biff

  • http://twitter.com/_MelissaEdwards Melissa Edwards

    In addition to Sukhothai, I’ve heard that Ayutthaya is even more awesome, and less well-known. In fact, some of the temples of Ayutthaya were in the Mortal Kombat movies!

    I just found your blog today…am enjoying your zest for adventure :) Seeya when you get here!

    Melissa

  • http://www.faranginthailand.com Colin Steele

    Although I will make the journey again, I have been to Ayutthaya once before I wasn’t aware of the history of Thailand at the time so I will be makling the journey again. I’ve never seen the mortal combat movies but I can imagine how awesome it would look with the ruins of Ayutthaya.

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