DekDek looking out for us!

After we went out for a boattrip to another flooded village, we came back in our own village. Our dogs are always on the lookout and waiting for us. Where could they have a better spot than on the high balcony!

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Every life counts..

On the roofs of the bloch where our house in Bang Bua Thong is in, we heard the cries of a cat. The cat founds its way to our balcony and kept crying. Actually I think it is a dog in cat's clothes because it eats dogfood! Most people around here left their homes and oerhaps this cat is abandonned. Especially during times like this with floodings and all, also animals are in need and whenever where we can help out, we should. The cat has a new name, by its looks we called it "Latté".

Below are photos of our temporary new friend.

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Bang Bua Thong during Thailand floods

Thailand is going through the worst floods since 50 years ago. My fiancee lives in Bang Bua Thong which is badly hit by the floods. I arrived on Wednesday October 26 and met up with Paung at The Mall Ngamwongwan. Together we travelled to Bang Bua Thong, at least that was our plan. When it was our turn to get a taxi and Paung asked can you take us to the Bang Pu intersection, all the taxidrivers' heads said 'No Way'. Luckily a minibus was going that direction and we could hop in. As I came fdirectly from the airport, I was carrying a laptopbag and a suitcase. The suitcase weigehd about 22kilo. When we crossed a bridge over the Chao Praya river, I could clearly see how high the waterlevel was, never seen it this high ever before. We were dropped off at the Bang Pu intersection and there Paung called the taxiboat. Outside it was quite busy with people who all needed to go direction Bang Bua Thong. Paung say: 'Look, the water is there already!' and as far as I could see, Bang Kruai - Sai Noi Road was not the street I remember from earlier visits. It turned into a 2-way canal. With people in boat, some on jetskis, on bamboo rafts and all other possible floating objects. We had to walk through the water for about 200 metres to wait at the meetingpoint with our taxiboat. That wasn't a real pleasure carrying a 22kilo suitcase on top of my head and at the same time watching where I was going to put my feet. At some stage the taxiboat finally arrived, it was getting dark quickly, and took us to Chonlada. Never before I felt it was taking ages to get there. Normally by taxi it takes about 10 minutes. This time it took at least half an hour. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, all buildings standing in the water, cars nearly fully submerged in the water, I could just spot the roofs. We arrived at the little bridge crossing the canal before we entered the area where we normall go to the market and 7Eleven, everything completely inundated. A small boat, without an engine this time, took us to The Emerald Park 2, where our house is. We finally made it to our house and I was happy to see it again, even in the current condition.

I brought an inflatabe boat with me which I bought in Holland. This was a request from Paung and now I understand why she wasn't joking! A boat is the only to get around here at the moment. On Friday October 28 we took the boat and went to see a friend of ours who lives in Lappawan 10. Normally by motorbike tho get there only take between 5 and 10 minutes. By boat it took us nearly an hour! Mere to the fact that we were going upstream.

Below are some pictures I took during our trip to Lappawan 10.

 

 

 

 

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Bang Bua Thong during Thailand floods

Thailand is going through the worst since 50 years ago. My fiancee lives in Bang Bua Thong which is badly hit by the floods. I arrived on Wednesday October 26 and met up with Paung at The Mall Ngamwongwan. Together we travelled to Bang Bua Thong, at least that was our plan. When it was our turn to get a taxi and Paung asked can you take us to the Bang Pu intersection, all the taxidrivers' heads said 'No Way'. Luckily a minibus was going that direction and we could hop in. As I came fdirectly from the airport, I was carrying a laptopbag and a suitcase. The suitcase weigehd about 22kilo. When we crossed a bridge over the Chao Praya river, I could clearly see how high the waterlevel was, never seen it this high ever before. We were dropped off at the Bang Pu intersection and there Paung called the taxiboat. Outside it was quite busy with people who all needed to go direction Bang Bua Thong. Paung say: 'Look, the water is there already!' and as far as I could see, Bang Kruai - Sai Noi Road was not the street I remember from earlier visits. It turned into a 2-way canal. With people in boat, some on jetskis, on bamboo rafts and all other possible floating objects. We had to walk through the water for about 200 metres to wait at the meetingpoint with our taxiboat. That wasn't a real pleasure carrying a 22kilo suitcase on top of my head and at the same time watching where I was going to put my feet. At some stage the taxiboat finally arrived, it was getting dark quickly, and took us to Chonlada. Never before I felt it was taking ages to get there. Normally by taxi it takes about 10 minutes. This time it took at least half an hour. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, all buildings standing in the water, cars nearly fully submerged in the water, I could just spot the roofs. We arrived at the little bridge crossing the canal before we entered the area where we normall go to the market and 7Eleven, everything completely inundated. A small boat, without an engine this time, took us to The Emerald Park 2, where our house is. We finally made it to our house and I was happy to see it again, even in the current condition.

I brought an inflatabe boat with me which I bought in Holland. This was a request from Paung and now I understand why she wasn't joking! A boat is the only to get around here at the moment. On Friday October 28 we took the boat and went to see a friend of ours who lives in Lappawan 10. Normally by motorbike tho get there only take between 5 and 10 minutes. By boat it took us nearly an hour! Mere to the fact that we were going upstream.

Below are some pictures I took during our trip to Lappawan 10.

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