Off to the 2025 Buffalo Races

I am still searching for a route through Bangkok that will be my normal transit through the city. I liked the route I returned on after my attending the boat races. I tried to go this way in reverse but seemed to have messed up and my trip to Chachoengsao where I would spend the night took a bit longer than I thought it would. The following day I stopped at Wat Sanam Chan (วัดสนามจันทร์) on my way to Chonburi City where I had a hotel booked to attend this years Buffalo Races.

I often add stops on Google Maps not because I want to stop at a place but rather I want to take a different route to the destination than google wants to send me. I have also found it is really useful so that I do not get bounced back to the faster route when I have selected an alternate route which maybe a few minutes slower. The problem is I do not hear the phone when riding and if I am not looking at the phone but watching the road I often find myself switched back to the faster route. I used Wat Sanam Chan (วัดสนามจันทร์) as a stop to route myself away from the highway but seemed to enjoy stopping at this temple around the city of Chachoengsao.

The temple sits along the Bang Pakong River and I found it a nice place to sit and watch the water flow by and it had a number of different statues shown in the pictures below.

I attend the Buffalo Races (วิ่งควาย) again this year 2025 and had a good time. Following is the video I put together of the event.



I usually end up going to Pattaya when I am on this side of Bangkok as a sort of holiday where I eat and drink too much but this time I was not feeling very good. I seem to be suffering from a cold or the flu and decided I did not want to go on a holiday where I would not want to leave the hotel so headed back home. I seemed to get the route through Bangkok correct this time but was still too long of a ride when I was not feeling at 100%.

2 Days of Failure

I bought a concert ticket last month and the day after I bought the ticket the concert was cancelled. I went back to the 7-11 where I bought the ticket and tried to get my money back. They told me I would have to wait for a text message on my phone and then come back in to get the money. I received the text message and it said I could get my money back on the 1st of October.

I went back to the 7-11 yesterday with the text message and thought I would get my money back in 5 minutes. I was wrong I spent about 2 hours in the 7-11 and left with them telling me someone will call you. The manager in the 7-11 was great and the one doing all the work for those 2 hours trying to get my money back but it still failed. I am currently waiting on the call back and have no idea if the problem is with 7-11 or All-Tickets which is the ticketing company. I am suppose to get a refund of the 1230 Thai baht or about US $40. It will not break the bank if I don't get the money but not sure I will ever buy a concert ticket in advance to another concert in Thailand if I don't get the refund.

I just found and read the following letter so will have to try again at 7-11.

Today was another failure. I enjoyed the long-tail boat races and the infomation where I found the 1st event details had 3 more events.

The 2nd event was suppose to be in Nong Fai, Kanchanaburi. My understanding that it would take place at the football stadium. I could not find a stadium in Nong Fai, Kanchanaburi on Google Maps. I assumed if I just went to Nong Fai and asked someone and showed them the picture from above they would point me to the correct place. Again I assumed incorrectly.

I rode the 100 Kilometers or 60 miles out to Nong Fai, Kanchanaburi and asked around 6 different people and no one knew anything about long-tail boat races taking place today. I checked on the facebook group where I got this picture and could not find any other reference to the races in Nong Fai, Kanchanaburi. I ate a bowl of noodles and admitted to myself that I am once again a failure. I hopped on the bike and returned home hoping my next adventure would have a happier outcome.

Updated Videos

I am now at home for a few days and doing some updates in the posts I have already published now that I can get the full videos put together and uploaded. I will remove this post in a few weeks but just in case someone read the posts before I updated it I am posting them here for a while so it appears as a new post.

Flying Foxes at Wat Pho Bang Khla Flying Foxes (ค้างคาววัดโพธิ์).



Long-tail Boat Races at Wat Mai Songkrorat (วัดใหม่สงเคราะห์ราษฎร์)



The next video is not my video but if you want to see how good a youtube video can look when someone knows what they are doing. The only thing wrong with the video it does not my ugly face in it at one point.



Another YouTuber that I meet at the races video.



I hope to find another event of Long-Tail Boat Races in a couple of days and then it is off to Chonburi for the Buffalo Races.

Long Tail Boat Races at Wat Mai Songkrorat (วัดใหม่สงเคราะห์ราษฎร์)

I saw a YouTube video of someone riding on one of these Long Tail Racing Boats a number of years ago and thought that would be fun to watch. The problem in Thailand is finding information about events like this. Someone recently shared a Facebook group which posts information on upcoming events and where I received the following information.

Run the picture through Google Translate to try and understand the information. I had a concert planned for the day the event was in Chachoengsao but once the concert got cancelled it was off to Chachoengsao to watch the races.

It was a fun couple of days with smaller boats and engines on the first day and then bigger boats with larger engines the second.





This is the video I made when I returned home for a few days.



The next video is not my video but one of the guys I bumped into that has his own YouTube channel. If you want to see how good a youtube video can look when someone knows what they are doing. The only thing wrong with the video it does not my ugly face in it at one point.



Another YouTuber that I meet at the races video.