Memories of Thailand

ko samui

Ko Samui follow-up, just a little post with no pretensions—just sharing a few photos during this lockdown period

Ko Phangan

Bangkok

Bangkok, along the Chao Phraya

Bangkok, Chinatown

Nice, thanks!

Bangkok

I'm butting in. Not Samui, where I haven't set foot since 1983.

Really lovely photos, thanks for sharing! :)

Erawan

gorgeous How do you manage to post your photos in this format? I can only get mine to show up as thumbnails

These are photos taken with a smartphone at maximum size. I upload them and it asks if I want to display them in the post. Which I do for each photo

thanks so much, your photos are a real mood-lifter during this lockdown🙂

Erawan Temple

I’m jumping in too to start with New Year’s, since it’s the season:



Then let’s stay up north:

Stop in Bangkok at Wat Pho:

Looks like the south—can you guess the spot?

Not far from this beach:

Even further south:



Dove singing contest

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Gorgeous photos, thank you so much—it’s a real pleasure to look at them! That said, I don’t recognize the beach—Ko Samui?

All good here!

Koh Samui indeed—about the name of the beach, I don’t want to spoil the fun of searching and finding it yourself.

enjoy your meal! 😉

The 11, the 51, the 54, etc.... I took so many buses in BKK!

😉

Vacation vibes are in the air!

for sure, it's nice to share a few snapshots, thanks! :)

so, let's think😉, maybe Lamai?

Indeed, Lamai in 1976

Were you in Koh Samui in '76?

so many changes in 44 years

if you have any other photos of Ko Samui (or anywhere else in Thailand) from that time and you'd like to share them with us, that would be awesome 😉

Tell me about it! Two huts serving as bungalows back in 1976 (Lamai), then more bungalows followed until the '80s, and then the airport came along... After my first trip in 1976, while working in Thailand, I kept going back now and then until 1985. Bo Phut Beach in 1979:

Thanks for this little trip down memory lane—any photos of Bangkok from back then too?

Hi there,

If you have any other photos of Ko Samui (or elsewhere in Thailand) from that time and you'd like to share them with us, that would be awesome ;)

I have photos of deserted beaches: Kata, Karun, Rawai, and others in Phuket from 1983 with no restaurants, hotels, bars, guesthouses—nothing at all😎. I’ve never been back, but I’ve looked at photos online... things have changed a bit😠. If you’d like, I can show you a few. Thanks for the photos—right now, we’re not traveling much on this forum

Tell me about it! Two huts serving as bungalows back in 1976 (Lamai), then more bungalows followed until the '80s, and then the airport came... After my first trip in 1976, while working in Thailand, I went back from time to time until 1985. Bo Phut beach in 1979:

Lamai nowadays







and Bo Phut

It's okay. It's not the French Riviera.

No, it's clear, there's plenty of room🙂

Old photos of Thailand:

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=old%20thailand%20photos&eq=old%20thailand&etslf=53986&term_meta[]=old%7Cautocomplete%7C1&term_meta[]=thailand%7Cautocomplete%7C1&term_meta[]=photos%7Cautocomplete%7C1

I was there too in May '76 for 15 days in a little bamboo and thatch bungalow on a small hill. I think it was Lamai, not sure. There must have been 4 or 5 of them scattered around. After that, we took a bus to Phuket at Patong where there weren’t any bungalows—just two grocery-restaurant places on the whole beach. One of the few surviving photos from Samui on that trip

https://www.flickr.com/photos/yvesguillemot/albums/72157630515766184/with/7914063214/

Here’s everything I was able to scan: mostly from the far north, where my wife is from, and also from the far south. I worked as a teacher in Pattani back when there weren’t yet any serious security issues.

Hi there, Thanks so much for these beautiful photos. Even during lockdown, I’m still traveling—especially through past photos. Thanks for sharing!

That’s what you call time-traveling!

Gotta travel somewhere in the meantime...

that’s for sure, anyway a big thank you to all of you for enriching my humble post ;)

A big thank you, Yves, for your link

Totally agree, and a big thanks to all of you for enriching my humble post😉

So, here I go with 2 photos of Phuket from 1983:

Karon (recognizable by the rock on the right)

The same spot today:

Kata (that scooter is us!)

Hi Christian, I’m really glad I started this post—what a joy to see all your photos! Thanks! 🙂

Ko Phangan miscellany

If you have any photos to share, we’d love to see them... 😉😉😉