


Destination: Wat Pa Non Sawan — a weird hell temple with dinosaurs (NSFW)
My wife and I have kind of a thing for hell temples. We’ve come across several around Thailand, and the list will only get longer as we hear of more. If this is the first one you’ve read about, a hell temple (or hell garden) is built to show what will happen to you in...
The unexpected: A huge reclining Buddha and a forest of finely groomed trees (Phitsanulok, Thailand)
After spending some time in Phichit, we headed up the highway towards Phitsanulok to drop off our bike and get a bus home. For better or worse, it’s increasingly rare to find weird places that we didn’t already know about from our research — yet we found two on the...
Destination: a daytrip to Phichit — beautiful temples and a giant crocodile (north central Thailand)
Phichit isn’t your typical tourist destination — in fact we didn’t see a single tourist while traveling across the town. Most likely founded in the 11th century, it was called Sa Luang during the Sukhothai period (1238–1350). During the Ayutthaya period (1350–1767),...