The Coffee House in rural Ban Dung is a new addition to the sleepy town’s collection of bars and restaurants. An impressive addition it is too. The Coffee House is a fine-looking wood structured coffee shop/restaurant that wouldn’t look out-of-place in a mountain top ski resort. It whistles most dandy...
The turn of phrase ‘Home is where you lay your hat’ is valid at the Happy Buddha Bar & Restaurant in Ban Dung because it’s ‘home from home’ for many ex-pats living in the town and its surrounding rice clad and rubber affluent districts. It’s also somewhere I choose to...
At first glance, Ban Dung looks like a typical Thai rural market town. There are oodles of noodles, chunks of hardware stores, a central market, a bustling bus station, gold shops, ATM’s, banks, open front pharmacies and enough Buddhist orange gift buckets to scrub a herd of buffaloes clean. There...
In my 12 years of travelling to the Land of Smiles, I have only ever visited a Thai massage parlour once. I’ll correct that. Once, that being, a Thai massage to cure my aches and pains, but in my early years in Pattaya, there were a few other visits to...
I always thought the word Ban in Thai translated into English as ‘a village’. I must be wrong because Ban Dung is a fair-sized town in Udon Thani Province. If it isn’t, then it’s the largest hamlet I’ve ever seen. Ban Dung is a charming rural town, and for me,...
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