Thai Photo Blogs by Richard Barrow

At the Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Samut Prakan, you can enjoy watching the crocodile wrestling show. However, it is probably best if you don’t try doing this at home! The wrestler in this picture is sticking his hand down the throat of a crocodile!

Not many people realize that Bangkok actually borders the coastline of the Gulf of Thailand. However, don’t go to the beach in Bangkok expecting white sand and blue sea. There are only mudflats and mangrove forests. The area here is suffering greatly from land erosion. In this picture here you can see a marker for the border between Bangkok and the neighbouring province of Samut Sakhon. It is now out at sea.

A young Thai girl plays in fake snow at Snow Town in Dream World.  It has never snowed in Thailand but Thai people have a chance to experience real freezing conditions at this amusement park in Bangkok.

One of the most amazing new attractions in Thailand is the Dragon Descendants Museum in Suphanburi.  What is amazing about it is that it is shaped like a giant dragon. It is 135 meters long, 35 meters high and 18 meters wide.

This is the fishing wharf in Samut Sakhon. Fish in great qunatities are offloaded here every day and an army of workers then have the task of cleaning the fish before it is sent of to market. Many of these minimum wage workers are illegal Burmse immigrants.

In Samut Songkram, there is a farmer’s market that has taken over the railway tracks. The market vendors sit on both sides of the track while customers have to walk down the middle. When the train whistle blows, they have less than a minute to pull back their produce and also the awnings sheltering them from the sun. Seconds after the train has passed, it is back to business as usual.

I was driving through the countryside in Lopburi Province last year when I came across this amazing sight. An elephant walking through a sunflower field. These sites are a popular attraction for Thai tourists who drive hundreds of kilometres to have their pictures taken with sunflowers. For them, the elephant is just an added bonus.