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Welcome to #monthlytopic of October 2019, initiated by @HiroyukiTakisawa. This month, the topic is Nostalgic places or goods. I just visited a place and I think it fits this topic perfectly. Here is my experience there.
Yesterday I went for a field trip to Ang Thong with my colleagues. We had some time, about 1-2 hours, to kill before the appointment with a vendor. So we decided to give a short visit to Buffalo Village in Suphan Buri.
After we parked, we went to the ticket office and bought the tickets. A ticket costs 30 Baht ($1). At the gate, some visitors including us took a selfie. This gate is made from bamboo. There is a cute buffalo picture on the left side of it.
We walked a bit further and found a big and beautiful pond. There you can see some pink buffaloes soaking in the pond. They are there to greet the visitors everyday. This is a nice spot for taking photos. So I stopped a bit for one shot.
Then we went to Buffalo Ground. We were lucky that there was a show going on. There was a lot of kids at the Buffalo Ground watching the show. So we just stood outside and watched the show for a short period as it was very hot outside.
Now let me tell you why I think this place is a nostalgic one to me. When I was a kid, the area around my house was filled with rice fields. I always saw some buffaloes in the fields. Nowadays, I still see some rice fields but I don't see any buffaloes around at all. So this place really brings me the memories when I was a kid.
Here are the benefits of buffaloes to Thai people.
- They are our labor - Buffaloes have special gift that they are good in walking on a muddy area. So we use them to help in rice fields mostly in preparing the soil.
- We use their poop for fertilizer - This is cheap and environment friendly way to power the plants using buffaloes' poop.
- We eat their meat - It has a good flavor, also it is claimed to have less fat than fish, chicken and beef. But it is more chewy though.
We then walked through a bamboo walk way to our destination of this place. ?
Now we were at the buffalo pond. There were 6 of them chilling and relaxing in the pond. Some of them were in the stall next to the pond, eating some grasses. It seemed like they really enjoyed themselves like that on a hot and sunny day.
Next we walked to the small cafe and rest area at one end of the pond. Some of us ordered some drinks, some just sit and enjoyed the view of the buffaloes in the pond. One of my colleague told us that the buffaloes will come close to us if we feed them with grasses.
We enjoyed the drinks and the view of the pond with relaxing buffaloes for a while then we walked back to the parking lot. Along the way back, there is a rice field with a walk path made by bamboo. It is beautiful and nice view so, again I stopped for a nice shot below.
On the way back, there are some souvenir shops. Some shops also have local fruits and desserts. I found the animal dolls made from coconut shells cute, so I took a photo to share with you. And this is it, my short visit to Buffalo Village - Nostalgic place in Suphan Buri, Thailand.
Today I don't see any buffaloes around anymore. As we use machines for farming, we use chemical fertilizer for powering the plants, that is why the farmers don't have any buffaloes and the farmers don't use them nowadays.
Is there any place or thing that you feel nostalgia about? Share it with us in the comment section. I would love to read it.
Ahhh, good photos!! Thank you for join, @Ant_Bad_Yogi,
It's a very beautiful and pleasant place:-)
And the coconut shells dolls are so cute! It looks difficult to bring back to Japan but I guess that I can't help but buy it.
Thank you!
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