A trip to Nakhon Nayok province
Bamboo Tunnel at Chulapornwanaram Temple (argentozeno_th / Shutterstock.com)
The Bangkok Post often reports on trips off the beaten track, and this time a reporter traveled to Nakhon Nayok province, just over 100 kilometers east of Bangkok.
The main goal was to get acquainted with unique varieties of locally grown fruit, including the mango plum.
Mango plum
The mango plum can be found in many shops and markets at this time of the year, the purpose of the trip was to find out whether that fruit tastes different when one visits an orchard with mango plums. You will find an extensive article on this blog about this fruit, the mango plum or maprang (mayong chit in Thai), see www.thailandblog.nl/background/de-maprang-in-thailand
Nakhon Nayok
Nakhon Nayok is an important mango plum growing area and the reporter visited an important enumerator in that area, namely Suan Mayong Chit Kru Samran in Muang district. This orchard from grower Banyen was chosen because of a unique variant of the mango wig known as “thong yai hua khiao”. This variant has a firmer, but edible skin, and a sweet taste with a somewhat sour aftertaste.
Heighten your senses
Under this title, the Bangkok Post published the travelogue, of which the beautiful photos certainly give a nice impression of the province. Not only was attention paid to the cultivation of mango plums, but Wat Mani Wong was also visited, where a cave was opened last year with decorations related to naga. After lunch at a farm called Phu Kariang, the trip ended with a visit to the Chulachomklao Military Academy.
Finally
Read the whole story with the necessary travel information and enjoy the photo report on this link: www.bangkokpost.com/travel/2078043/heighten-your-senses
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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I have that tree in the garden, if it is the same.
Fruits of about 6-7 cm are now arriving, and indeed the taste is as described.
The tree itself I estimate 5 to 6 meters tall, and has been in the garden for more than 5 years.
Lots of fruit this year for the first time.
thanks, going to find this out soon.