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Utapao Air Base
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By: romulusnr.
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Not used since the Vietnam Conflict, Utapao was reactivated in 2005 under the auspices of tsunami relief. One of Project Censored's top 10 underrerported stories of 2005.

Phuket Patong Beach
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By: cmike77.
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More on South you can see Karon Beach

AN/FLR-9, Ramasun Station, Thailand
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By: romulusnr.
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A Classic Bullseye HFDF antenna array was built at Ramasun air base in Udorn (Udon Thani) in Thailand.
Thanks to lgnewman007 for correcting me on my previous guess.

Post-It note on Thailand?
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.
It certainly looks like a post-it note due to the shadow on the left.

Bang Na Expressway
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The Bang Na Expressway, officially Burapha Withi Expressway, is a 54 km long six-lane elevated highway in Bangkok, Thailand. It is a toll road and runs above National Highway route 34,(Bang Na–Bang Pakong Road).
The highway is elevated onto a viaduct (a bridge with many spans) that has an average span length of 42 meters. It is a 27-meter wide box girder bridge and was completed in March 2000. It took 1,800,000 cubic meters of concrete to build the bridge. The structure was built using a design-build contracting method and was designed by Jean Muller International.
There are two toll plazas on the elevated structure where the structure must widen to accommodate twelve lanes.
It is the longest bridge in the world, but is excluded on some lists since it does not cross a body of water for most of its length, although it does cross a river and some narrow canals.

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK)
cmike77 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: cmike77.
Opening expected July 2006, we see only 1 of the 2 runways because old satellite picture

Santika Club
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Santika Club - A fire raced through a two-story nightclub packed with hundreds of well-heeled New Year's revelers early Thursday, killing at least 61 people as they stampeded to escape the raging flames. More than 200 were injured, including 35 foreigners.
The cause of the fire in a Bangkok entertainment district was under investigation but several witnesses said a fireworks display during the New Year's countdown ignited the blaze.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474705,00.html

Bangkwang Prison
DonMartini (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: DonMartini.
Bangkwang is a jail in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. It is nicknamed "Big Tiger", because the prison "eats people up". It is a harsh prison which handles death row and long-sentence prisoners.
The prison has many foreign prisoners, including Steve Willcox a British Citizen from Leicester currently serving a 33.5 year sentence.
Also the dutch citizen Machiel Kuijt served 9 years in this prison despite there wasn't any evidence against him.

Dhammakaya Cetiya
noooby (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: noooby.
This temple is quite vast and more than one dome has been built by now (the Google photo looks to be several years old). The surface of the UFO is ringed with seats for thousands of monks to sit and lead the meditation of tens of thousands of its cult members housed in dozens of massive open-air meditation pavilions surrounding each UFO. The gold Buddha image contained inside the UFO, under the central gold bubble, is wholly alien looking: willowy, amorphous, unearthly. The temple is open to the public, but access inside the UFO is not. You need a car to drive around the grounds, still under construction, but much further developed than in this Google pic. There are many bizarre sculptures on the grounds, including a giant fiber optic fountain made from gigantic forks and spoons outside the monk's feeding hall.

Unidentified Floating Object
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.
What is the object to the left of this island in Kung Bay?

Soi Cowboy Red Light District
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.

The famous Maeklong Railway Market
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
The Maeklong Railway market has recently come to the public eye due to exposure on YouTube, which shows vendors and customers seemingly running for their lives as a train literally chugs through the market, apparently threatening mayhem to everything and everyone that is in the way.
It is a Thai market and has the unusual distinction of lying along and literally on a fairly busy railway line. Eight times a day, seven days a week, a train passes through the market and venders have to quickly remove their stalls and wares – mostly fish, vegetables and other food items - to make way for the train! And, of course, shoppers have to be quick on the feet, too. As soon as the train passes through, the venders set up their stalls and wares, and customers return and business resumes.

Sattahip Royal Thai Navy Base
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.
Note the docked ship

Airplanes on ramp in Thailand
andrewmorrell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: andrewmorrell.
A storage airport in Southern Thailand.

Don Mueang International Airport (DMK)
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By: cmike77.

Mae La Refugee Camp
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Refugees from Myanmar in Thailand. Established in 1984. 32,860 refugees. Operated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Baiyoke Sky Bangkok Hotel
304 m (997 ft)
Upon completion, this tower became the tallest building of Thailand and South-East Asia, the world's tallest reinforced structure and the 3rd tallest all-hotel building in the world, surpassed by Burj Al Arab

Chonburi city

Shrine, Nai Lert Park
noooby (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: noooby.
One of Bangkok's most unique animist shrines resides under the tree circled in the upper left corner. Here, favors are asked of Tubtim, a water spirit that lives in the adjacent canal. If a wish is granted, devotees leave phallic offerings of all shapes and sizes. Hundreds of colorful examples are lined up around the shrine. The building at the right is the former Hilton Hotel, which at one time attempted to stop visitors from accessing the shrine. Subsequently they lost their lease. The hotel is now named after the original property owner, Nai Lert.

Eric Levine's 64,580 sqft Oceanfront Estate
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.
Eric Levine is the founder of California Fitness, a wholly owned subsidiary of 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide.
Levine's "Beyond Villa" is located on Phuket, Thailand's ultra-exclusive Natai Beach.

Rajamangala National Stadium

Chatuchak Market
Chatuchak Market (Bangkok, Thailand) is The Worlds Biggest Weekend Market selling practically everything under the sun, from the smallest nails, to foods, trendy fashions, antiques intricate wooden carvings, masks from far-off lands, adorable fluffy dogs, colorful fish of every hue and singing birds.

Bridge on the River Kwai
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Woman's Face Not Blurred
QwertyKPH (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: QwertyKPH.
And she's cute too!

Changing from left-hand to right-hand traffic
hhgygy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: hhgygy.

Hua Mark Indoor Stadium
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Hua Mark Indoor Stadium is an indoor sporting arena, located in Bangkok, Thailand. The capacity of the arena is 15,000 spectators and it was built in 1998.

Tham Luang cave rescue
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Chitralada Palace
trecherus (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: trecherus.

Airplane (F-16) In Flight Over Thailand
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.
It's shadow can be seen next to the taxiway at 5:00.

Fighter Jets departing Bangkok
marttijn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: marttijn.
Two fighter jets lined up rwy21R, ready for departure at Don Muang Int'l Airport, Bangkok, Thailand.

Klong Prem Prison

Another burning field
erikz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: erikz.

Bangkok Sky Train, Asok Station
We see also some trains in progress on Sukhumvit Line

2004-12-26 - Koh Phi Phi Don
Tsunami 2004

Giant Moat around the old Chiang Mai
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The original town built by King Mengrai lies within a two kilometer square moat. Within the moat was a massive city wall, of which you can still see portions at the corner as well as the reconstructed Tapae Gate. Within the walled city are quiet narrow lanes and some of the city's oldest temples, such as Wat Chieng Man, Wat Phra Singh and Wat Chedi Luang.

Pattaya Beach
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Royal Grand Palace

Lumpini Park
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.
Accessible from the Silom Subway Station and Sala Daeng Skytrain, Lumpini Park is Bangkok's largest park within city limits. While there, be sure to keep an eye out for Monitor Lizards, as common as squirrels other places (see photos).

James Bond Island
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
This tiny 20 metres tall rocky Islet located in the Phang Nga Bay, Thailand is officially named Ko Tapu (English meaning: Nail Islet). After release (1974) of James Bond's Movie "The Man With Golden Gun", in which this Island was used in back ground of a scene, every one started calling it James Bond Island. The name has stuck and it is now a very popular tourist attraction. Almost all the tourists who visit Phuket make it a point to take a boat ride around this rock.

Abandoned New World Mall in Bangkok
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.

SCB Park Plaza

Thai aircraft carrier HTMS Chakri Naruebet
HTMS Chakri Naruebet is the flagship of the Royal Thai Navy (RTN), and Thailand's first and only aircraft carrier. Based on the Spanish Navy's Principe de Asturias design and constructed by Spanish shipbuilder Bazán, Chakri Naruebet was ordered in 1992, launched in 1996, and commissioned into the RTN in 1997.

Fashion Island Shopping Center

Overgrown Dispersal Area
pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pdunn.

Music Class
Tyco (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Tyco.
Couldn't fit this into a category

Phuket International Airport (HKT)

Koh Samui
PoorSucker (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: PoorSucker.

The Golden Triangle
Sop Ruak, borderline between Thailand, Myanmar and Laos

Siam Park
Water Fun Park

Phra Prang Sam Yot temple and Phra Kan shrine
noooby (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: noooby.
Phra Prang Sam Yot (upper left), is a stunningly beautiful Hindu temple from the Khmer period when the Angkor empire stretched straight through Thailand to present-day Burma. The circular area in the bottom right is the famous monkey shrine, the main crib of the large posse of naughty monkeys that roam freely around the city center and have made Loburi famous as the City of Monkeys.

Wat Phra Sri Mahatat
A gorgeous 12th century temple complex boasting numerous prangs and chedis in both Sukhothai and Ayuttaya styles.

Cool Thai town layout
andrewmorrell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: andrewmorrell.
Very cool mosaic-like layout of a town in Central Thailand.

Banglamung Hospital
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha)
kaiken (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kaiken.

First generation Mazda MX-5 (Miata)
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.
The first generation Miata (1989-1997) is recognizable by its pop-up headlights.
Direct link below.

Pattaya City sign
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Pattaya is a city in Thailand, a beach resort popular with tourists and expatriates. It is located on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about 165 km southeast of Bangkok within but not part of Amphoe Bang Lamung (Banglamung) in the province of Chonburi.

Bangkok Int'l Trade & Exibition Center (BITEC)

Marine Salt Collect

Sexy Airline
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

Rajamangala Stadium
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Rajamangala National Stadium, also known as Hua Mark Indoor Stadium, is the national stadium of Thailand and the home stadium for the Thailand national football team. Located in Khwaeng Hua Mak, Khet Bang kapi, Bangkok, it officially opened in 1998.

Parasailer
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Nawa Thani Golf Course (Navathanee)

SCG Stadium
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
SCG Stadium, which also known as Thunderdome Stadium and Yamaha Stadium, is a football stadium located in Nontaburi, Thailand, and is the home of Thai Premier League's side, Muangthong United. SCG Stadium was the first operate football stadium in Thailand, while PAT Stadium and TOT Stadium constructed without operate including there are others older stadiums, they're all considered as multi-purpose stadiums.

Airplane landing at Bangkok Airport

Colorful Thai bayside buildings
andrewmorrell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: andrewmorrell.
A lovely top down look at the colorful rooftops of this bayside town in Thailand.

Chang Building (shaped like an elephant)
The Elephant Building or Chang Building is a high-rise building located on Paholyothin Road & Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok, Thailand. It lies in the North Bangkok Business District and Chatuchak district. The building is one of the most famous buildings in Bangkok because it has the characteristics of an elephant. The building has 32 floors and is 102 meters (335ft.) high, it was completed in 1997.

Wat Phra Kaeo - Emerald Buddha Temple
vonbergenDOTnet (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: vonbergenDOTnet.

CentralWorld mall
CentralWorld is a shopping plaza and complex in Bangkok, Thailand. It is the 2nd largest shopping complex in Southeast Asiam after SM City North EDSA of the Philippines. The complex, which includes a hotel and office tower, is owned by the Central Pattana. In 2006, after three years of design and renovation, the expanded, 550,000 square metres of shopping mall and 1,024,000 square metres of complex was opened, topping its nearby rival Siam Paragon in terms of size.

Top Tames RC Airfield
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Lauda Air #004 - Crash Site
KRL (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: KRL.
The Boeing 767-300ER had just left Bankok en route to Vienna on a scheduled passenger flight when and un-commanded thrust reverser deployment caused the crash.
All 213 passengers & 10 crew perished. The site is within a National Park.
This was the first hull loss for the B-767.
More info at link below

Kalasin city

2006-09-19 Thailand military coup d'état
On September 19, 2006, it was reported that around 14 tanks had taken up position around the Government House building in Bangkok, and that around 50 soldiers had entered the building.

Shangri-La Hotel

Naval Hovercraft
Looks like a US LCAC. The US Navy often performs joint exercises with the Thai Navy.

Lumphini Park
trecherus (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: trecherus.

Chinese Cemetery
pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pdunn.

Giant moat around old city of Nakhon Ratchasima

72-years Anniversary Stadium
Chalerm Phrakiat 72nd Stadium Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Minburi, Thailand. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Thai Honda FC and Bangkok Bravo FC. The stadium holds 15,000 people.

Chiang Mai Airport (CNX)

Siam@Siam Design Hotel
Direct link below.

Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand
This gorgeous stretch of garden oasis along "Wireless Road" is what Bangkok used to look like once upon a time.

Safari World Park
you can drive with your car into the park where live a lot of african & asian wild animals

Airplane - Thai F-16 in flight
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.
This is one of three in the immediate vicinity.

Curious look
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Wat Phra Yai Pattaya (Big Buddha Hill)
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Wat Phra Yai (Big Buddha Hill) is an attractive place in Pattaya. There is a huge image of Buddha at the top of the hill, so visitors can notice it from a distant location.

Moulin Rouge in Walking Street
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Walking Street is part of the city of Pattaya, Thailand. It is a tourist attraction that draws foreigners and Thai nationals, primarily for the night life. It is a red-light district with many go-go bars and brothels. The street runs from the south end of Beach Road to the Bali Hai Pier. A large video sign was erected in March 2010 at the Beach Road entrance, replacing an earlier metal arch, and a small arch adorns the Bali Hai entrance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_Street,_Pattaya

Mall, The (Shopping Center Bangkapi)

Huamark Velodrome
Outdoor, Concrete, 333m

"The Met" by WOHA
The Met is a 69 storey condominium located in Bangkok. WOHA, the architectural firm, won the President's Design Award - Design of the Year for The Met.[2] It is the fourth tallest building and tallest residential building in Thailand.
The Met has a height of 228 metres and 69 floors. It contains 370 condominium units. It is composed of six towers connected by skybridges. Sunshades, overhangs, and walls of live greenery filter sunlight and protect interiors from overheating. The gaps between the towers contain terraces with pools and sky gardens. The staggered blocks of the structure's mass are oriented to let the sun pass through the building on its regular course. The apertures through this building are meant to increase the strength of passing breezes and to cool the living units. The architects conceived of this building as a model for high-rise construction in a low-wind tropical climate, reworking the worldwide model developed for cold climates with high winds.
The Met has won the 2009 Bronze Emporis Skyscraper Award.

Ko Khram Island

King Rama VI summer palace
Architecture is a inspiration from Chenonceau Castle in France

Kao Ping Kan Island
40 metres from the Khao Phing Kan beach is the a 20-metre karst island called Ko Tapu. In 1974 it was featured in the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun and has been known as James Bond Island ever since.

Wat Traimit - Temple of the Golden Buddha
Wat Traimit or Wat Trimit (วัดไตรมิตรวิทยารามวรวิหาร) is known for its giant Buddha image made from solid gold weigh about 5.5 tons. The gold was hidden under plaster for centuries until rediscovery in 1954.

Wat Benchamabophit Dusitvanaram
Wat Benchamabophit Dusitvanaram (Thai: วัดเบญจมบพิตรดุสิตวนารามราชวรวิหาร) is a buddhist temple (wat) in the Dusit district of Bangkok, Thailand. Also known as the marble temple, it is one of Bangkok's most beautiful temples and a major tourist attraction.

Thai Navy Fleet Headquarters

Baioke Tower II
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.
Baiyoke Tower II, located on 222 Ratchaprarop Road in the Ratchathewi district of Bangkok is Thailand's tallest building. It contains the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel in Southeast Asia, and the fourth-tallest all-hotel structure in the world.
The building is 304 m (997 ft) tall, or 328 m (1,076 ft) tall with the antenna included. It has 85 floors, with a public observatory on the 77th floor, a bar called "Roof Top Bar & Music Lounge" on the 83rd floor, a 360-degree revolving roof deck on the 84th floor and the hotel offers 673 guest rooms. Construction on the building ended in 1997, with the antenna being added two years later. The Baiyoke Sky Hotel website itself lists the height without the antenna as 309 m (1,014 ft), but the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Emporis, and SkyscraperPage list it as 304 m (997 ft).
Ocean 1 Tower in Pattaya when completed, expected 2012, will be 367 m tall and so become Thailand's tallest building. It will also be the tallest all residential building in the world.

Narai Ratchanivet Palace
At the center of Lopburi, Thailand's City of Monkeys, is the impressive Narai Ratchanivet Palace, with its monumental gates built for elephants to walk through and magnificent gardens. A museum here exhibits furnishings and items from everyday life as well as sacred and royal national treasures.

Thupatemee Stadium
Thupatemee Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Pathum Thani, Thailand. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Air Force United F.C.. The stadium holds 25,000 people

Tsunami Hazard Zone
QwertyKPH (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: QwertyKPH.

Leo Stadium