lonelywombat
December 11th, 2011, 07:18
Every time I help a newbie visitor to Pattaya I recommend the day trip to Nong Nooch. it is about a half hour by car and well worth the effort. I have never found videos until today and they dont do the Venue justice but they are good.
If you have never been there it is best to go with a guide or a tour or at least hire a cab for the day. I have found people who have thought there was one show only but there are 4 shows daily and two different arenas.
The traditional Thai show is a great variety show with battle scenes, with elephants, Thai boxing, Thai dancing . I enjoy taking a Thai boy along as almost every one has never seen anything like this before. It was amazing walking into the boys bar the night after the visit, the boys treated me like royalty [ well like a queen I suppose]
Start with their homepage , there is a lot of interesting stuff including a virtual tour
http://www.nongnoochgarden.com/shows.html
This video by the same guy that did Montys birthday, mainly focuses on the boxing/fighting. If the half naked bodies is not your scene move to the 4 minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pBcLKA_ ... re=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pBcLKA_MHE&feature=related)
I also found a lot of short videos of the main show but the finale the renactment of the Battle for Burma is not as clear but you do get an idea of how spectacular it is This guy nickinfla has over a dozen small video clips of the traditional and the elephant show. Great captures but even then it is hard to capture the theatre of the place.
Here is a link to one of his clips. On the right is list of all his clips . take your time and enjoy
This clip is the drumming leading up to the battle scene.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rickinfla#p ... -NvAIHEmm4 (http://www.youtube.com/user/rickinfla#p/u/10/F-NvAIHEmm4) THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED THE LINK WAS DUPLICATED
The battle scene is brief but dark and my arms are still bruised from where the Thai boy grabbed my arms when the battle elephants came on stage. see last part this clip
http://www.youtube.com/user/rickinfla#p/u/8/vcUaFiJwPoU
It is definilty a day trip and an escorted one is preferred.
If you have never been there it is best to go with a guide or a tour or at least hire a cab for the day. I have found people who have thought there was one show only but there are 4 shows daily and two different arenas.
The traditional Thai show is a great variety show with battle scenes, with elephants, Thai boxing, Thai dancing . I enjoy taking a Thai boy along as almost every one has never seen anything like this before. It was amazing walking into the boys bar the night after the visit, the boys treated me like royalty [ well like a queen I suppose]
Start with their homepage , there is a lot of interesting stuff including a virtual tour
http://www.nongnoochgarden.com/shows.html
This video by the same guy that did Montys birthday, mainly focuses on the boxing/fighting. If the half naked bodies is not your scene move to the 4 minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pBcLKA_ ... re=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pBcLKA_MHE&feature=related)
I also found a lot of short videos of the main show but the finale the renactment of the Battle for Burma is not as clear but you do get an idea of how spectacular it is This guy nickinfla has over a dozen small video clips of the traditional and the elephant show. Great captures but even then it is hard to capture the theatre of the place.
Here is a link to one of his clips. On the right is list of all his clips . take your time and enjoy
This clip is the drumming leading up to the battle scene.
http://www.youtube.com/user/rickinfla#p ... -NvAIHEmm4 (http://www.youtube.com/user/rickinfla#p/u/10/F-NvAIHEmm4) THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED THE LINK WAS DUPLICATED
The battle scene is brief but dark and my arms are still bruised from where the Thai boy grabbed my arms when the battle elephants came on stage. see last part this clip
http://www.youtube.com/user/rickinfla#p/u/8/vcUaFiJwPoU
It is definilty a day trip and an escorted one is preferred.