Khon Kaen (ขอนแก่น)

The day after the fun day of watching spinning rockets I headed to Khon Kaen (ขอนแก่น). I had a bit of a scare on the way waiting too long to fill the bike and when I got to the station I put into the phone GPS they were out of fuel. I stopped at two more stations that were also out of fuel. I was heading to another station that I wasn't sure I had enough fuel to reach when I saw one of those vending machine type of pumps. I was thrilled to get a 100 baht of fuel. I tried to buy another100 baht but the machine kept refusing all my bills. It did accept a 20 and I maybe should have used more 20 baht bills but made it to a gas station with fuel and filled up.

I didn't find many festival this week so had decided that spending a week in Khon Kaen (ขอนแก่น) would be a good use of my time. I don't think it was a really a good use of my time but I enjoyed a bit of down time. I had seen on Facebook that 2 bars had darts so tried both bars. I didn't see a board in one bar but the owner of the other bar gave me a couple of games.

I have been to Khon Kaen before and had been to most of the tourist sites which I wrote about in Khon Kaen and Backtracking to Khon Kaen but spent one day playing tourist while here.

I sometimes watch a YouTube channel of an English expat living in Khon Kaen and learned of both of the places from his channel.

My first stop was at the very unusual site of Shiva Mahadeva Temple (เทวาลัยศิวะมหาเทพ). It is a Hindu temple and seem to have some images of what I would call the devil.

My 2nd and last tourist stop was at the Khmer Ruins at Ku Kaew (อโรคยาศาล “กู่แก้ว”)

I didn't do a lot in Khon Kaen other than recharge my internal batteries for more time at rocket festivals the following week but enjoyed wasting some time.