Pattaya Music Festival 2012

The Pattaya International Music Festival 2012 is over but what a great time it was. A lot of great music, tons of great food and every kind of trinket you can imagine on sale. The streets were jam packed with music lovers, food lovers and families enjoying the beautiful weekend. There can be no doubt that this is Pattaya’s largest festival and I would bet attendance this year topped half a million people. Well, enough with the words, time for the pictures and videos. Enjoy!

Pattaya Music Festival 2012

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Songkran 2012 the Finale

Another Songkran has come and gone and it’s been a pretty popular consensus that this years Songkran festival was one of the best in recent history, although still a little too long at 7 days for Pattaya.

A few days such as day 4 & 5 were pretty barren around town as people were tired out from the first 3 days and saving their energy for the final push of days 6 & 7.

Day 7 in Pattaya was complete bedlam with all the major roads clogged with Songkran revelers and every small soi engaged in massive water fights, not surprisingly water was getting hard to come by.

Anyway, here are some pictures and video of the madness of Songkran’s last day in Pattaya, and boys, pay close attention to the last 2 pics and you’ll get a good idea of how this years Women of Songkran 2012 post is shaping up…I promise to have it posted within the next few days and I won’t bore you with any words:)

Final Day of Songkran 2012

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Songkran 2012

The day started out very slow yesterday, many people are resting and saving up their energy for the last 2 days of Songkran. To give you an idea of how slow it started out I walked from my apt on Pattaya Klang  all the way to walking street ( with a detour up soi Diana ) at about 2:00pm and I didn’t get wet until I walked all the way down to soi 8 and Beach road. For those of you that don’t know the area, that’s a lot of walking. Anyway, there were pics to be had and you can see them below.

Songkran Day 5

Songkran 2012

I decided to take out the cheap camera yesterday instead of the good one, I don’t want to take too many chances in getting it soaked. Unfortunately the pictures aren’t as good but I did grab some video ( posted above ). The upshot was I didn’t have to worry about the camera as it is small and fit into the small plastic covers being sold, so, I could have a great time running up and down the soi’s with my small guns ( filled with ice water ). Everyone laughed at me until I attacked

Songkran day 4 was a mild affair in Pattaya, many people were tired out from the first 3 days and decided to take a day off, so, the streets weren’t as crowded during the afternoon but it seemed to ramp up some towards the evening.  I still managed to get some decent pictures but I will be taking out the good camera today and hopefully I’ll get some great shots.

With Songkran being in the last 3 days it will start getting more maniacal as we get towards the 19th, which is the final day of Songkran in Pattaya. The 19th will be all out bedlam!

Songkran 2012 pics

Songkran ( Thai New Year ) 2012

Songkran is already into it’s third day and it decidedly started with a shout instead of a whimper. Although the war has just begun major battles for control are taking place just about everywhere from the smallest soi’s to the large prominent roads dissecting town. Beach road is awash ( literally ) with thousands of revelers and soi’s 7 & 8 are hotly contested property. The merchants selling water guns, powder, water and ice are making a killing as supplies are often running low and new recruits are showing up by the hour.

Songkran 2012 has been a blast so far and it’s an unbelievable sight to see so many smiling people laughing and having fun with friends and complete strangers…Okay, enough of the words. Here are some pics from the first 2 days. I’m still scoping out places to hide with the camera so much more and better are on the way, and don’t forget there will definitely be a Women of Songkran post before this is all over. Enjoy!

Songkran 2012 Days 1 & 2

Pattaya Burapa Bike Week 2012

The 15th annual Pattaya Burapa Bike Week will be happening February 10th and 11th at the Pattaya Sports Arena in Jomtien. This is one Pattaya event you don’t want to miss. There will be bikes and riders from all over South East Asia and hundreds of the coolest custom bikes you will ever see.

The weekend long event is filled with stunt shows, great live music and tons of great food. There is literally something for everyone at Pattaya Burapa Bike Week. There will be vendors from all the major bike retailers and shops around SE Asia selling everything from t-shirts to full custom rides. There are usually a few tattoo shops set up to do custom ink all weekend and the Main Stage will host great rock music all weekend long from acts such as: Lam Morrison, Carabao, Job to Do, New Raggae Man, Pink Acid, Firasah, Bannbodo and Nuclear Strikes. If you like your music hard then you will be right at home.

As always the theme for the Pattaya Burapa Bike Week is “Love Ride for Peace and there will be a few rides set up as well as more than a few bike parades through and around the sports arena grounds.

And while this may be South East Asia’s biggest and baddest bike week it also plays host to Cowboys and Indians with the Pattaya Ice Tara barrel racing team who will be having horse riding exhibitions and contests all weekend long. There will also be exhibitions by the Thai army and para gliders soaring over head to complete the general circus like atmosphere. Add hot Asian women and tons of great food and Pattaya will literally become Heaven on earth over the weekend of the 10th and 11th. Did I mention there will be awesome bikes all over? Everything from vintage Harley’s to state of the art Ducati’s and everything in between as well as some serious custom bikes for show and sale.

Trust me, this is always the event of the year in Pattaya and not one to be missed. Just take a look at the pics from Last years Pattaya Burapa Bike Week for a general idea. I will definitely be attending Pattaya Burapa Bike Week this year and will be sure to get a lot of great photo’s for those of you that won’t be here to attend.

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The Pattaya International Bed Race 2012 went off without a hitch last night and there was a lot of fun in the air. By the time the beds started lining up for the parade it was overcast and threatening rain and not too long after that the skies did open up for a bit but aside from a little rain, thunder and lightning there was an incredible turnout this year and I would say there were easily a couple thousand people lining the streets and eager for the race to begin.

On the Stage the house band from the Blues Factory jammed away and were eventually joined by a Jerry Lee Lewis impersonator who did a helluva job in keeping the crowd rockin.

There were about 30 beds entered in the race again this year and some of the old favorites made their return such as Champagne agogo and Murphy’s Law. I will have to say that Champagne agogo was the winner this year when it comes to bed innovation as no other beds had a working shower head with the ladies working the water in a way that only they could . Best looking bed would have to go to the Nova Hotel Baywatch team even though it looked exactly like a speedboat I’m betting you could sleep in it and what lovelies it held. Most rowdy bed as always has to go to Murphy’s Law. Hard Rock Hotel always has the most fun and snazziest dressed bed participants.

I didn’t stick around for the end of the race but it was a great year for the Pattaya International Bed Race  and the real winners were the children that the charities will help…enough of the words on with the Pictures!

Pattaya International Bed Race 2012

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Pattaya Fireworks Competition 2011

This weekend the Pattaya Fireworks Competition finally took place after being rescheduled due to lack of tourists last month. The fireworks started early Friday evening and lasted until about 10pm and again on Saturday. Friday night the fireworks were great but Saturday’s show was just awesome with the best teams showing off for all to see. Luckily for me my balcony was perfectly situated for the show and I managed to get some great shots. Enjoy!

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Loy Krathong 2011

Loy Krathong is without a doubt one of my all time favorite Thai holidays and like all Thai holidays it’s a time to spend with friends and loved ones. I had a great time last night wandering the streets and the beach taking pictures and joining in the festivities, although I was a bit surprised that there weren’t as many ladies dressed up this year. Even so there were plenty of smiles to be had and the ladyboys picked up the slack in a big way.

The Beach was packed from Walking Street down to Soi 8 and luckily with the tide out Mo and I found a nice secluded island out in the water and set our krathong’s adrift from there. Well, that’s quite enough of my rambling…enjoy the pics.

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