We had a few bombs go off in Bangkok on New Years Eve but I was far from the action, so to speak, in a small town called Pak Chong near Khao Yai National Park.
This is a very strange little town that seems to have adopted a permanent theme of a cowboy town, due to the fact that Thailand's largest dairy farm, Chokchai Farm, is nearby.
Anyway, we'd been camping in Khao Yai National Park until New Years Eve but it suddenly got inundated by hundreds of Thais just off work and seeking some fun for their holidays so, being as unsocialable as I am and wanting to avoid lots of people armed with guitars, cheap whiskey and squeaking wives, we decided to head to Chokchai Farm for a visit and stay in Pak Chong that night.
We ended up finding a very nice camp site and later heard that they were having a New Year's party with food and beer, etc, with a cowboy theme of course! We therefore decided to see in 2007 Thai cowboy style!
It was so bad that it was good! I managed to win several bottles of Chang Beer in the little fair that they had organised which emboldened me to later murder a rendition of 'Love is all Around' by the Troggs.
Here are a few photos.
My recently-purchased second-hand Mazda that got us up there, a real cowboy breakfast, 'Chang'-ed up and Karaoke.
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