Day trip to Phra Sunthorn Phu Memorial Park in Rayong
The Statue of Phra Abhai Mani and Sunthorn Phu Memorial at Sunthorn Phu Memorial Park at Rayong (Jacky Photographer / Shutterstock.com)
In view of Sunthorn Day on June 26, it is a good idea to visit Phra Sunthorn Phu Memorial Park in Klaeng district of Rayon province.
The park is dedicated to Thailand's most famous poet, who was born 235 years ago. Sunthorn Phu has already been discussed on this blog, you can read it again at www.thailandblog.nl/cultuur/de-thaise-dichter-phra-sunthorn-vohara
Karnjana Karnnajata, a journalist from Bangkok Post, recently published a report of a trip to that park. Because a whole day in that park is a bit much, he also visited a number of attractions on the way there, so that it became a varied day trip.
He started with a visit to the Botanical Gardens in tambon Chak Pong, then had lunch in Laem Mae Phim and then tasted the atmosphere associated with the thought of a poet's life from a bygone era. On the way back, we stopped by one of the many fruit orchards in the area to buy mangosteen and longkong with which he concluded his day trip.
All in all a nice and informative article with beautiful pictures, which you can find at: www.bangkokpost.com/
About this blogger
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Bert Gringhuis (1945), born and raised in Almelo in the beautiful Twente. Later lived for many years in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, working in export for various companies. I first came to Thailand in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the country. Been back many times since then and moved to Thailand after my (early) retirement as a widower. I have been living there for 22 years now with my somewhat younger Thai lady Poopae.
My first experiences in Thailand as a kind of newsletter sent to family, friends and acquaintances, which later appeared under the name Gringo on Thailandblog. Many, many articles followed those first stories and that has grown into an almost daily hobby.
In the Netherlands still an avid footballer and football referee, but the years are starting to tell and in Thailand still avid, but the pool billiards is really of inferior quality, ha ha!
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