A View from the South - PSU Sports Complex and the Steel Temple

[CheshireTom 1,377]

One of the things I like about Thailand is how they, the locals, prefer to exercise outdoors, rather than in air-conditioned comfort of the local gymnasiums.

 

One of the options available to me is the Sports Complex at the local university, in particular the swimming pool and jogging/walking/cycling route around the university lake.

 

The entrance to the complex ... put together for University Games ...

 

 

Tennis courts (and a beach volleyball court) ...

 

 

Entrance to the swimming complex ...

 

 

50m competition and training pool ... 15 Baht for 2 hours ...

 

 

 

25m competition and training pool ...

 

 

 

 

Adjacent to the complex is a small man-made lake (1.5km in circumference) which is ideal for doing interval training using the lampposts around the lake as markers ...

 

 

Easy to miss is the structure behind the ridge that overlooks the university (circled above) and when zoomed in appears to be some sort of temple ...

 

Edited October 13, 2012 by CheshireTom

[CheshireTom 1,377]

I had absolutely no idea how to get to the temple from the university and the couple of folk I spoke to hadn't noticed it before ...

 

So it was onto Google Earth to find a way up to the ridge .... no problem, a 2.5 km climb that would have tested Lance in his heyday ...

 

 

... and I eventually found the entrance ...

 

 

... followed by a collection of various religious offerings ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

The chedi itself ...

 

 

 

 

 

... and from the inside looking out ...

 

 

Edited October 13, 2012 by CheshireTom

[grayray44 49]

tom.

lub your camera work mate.

regards

grayray

[samfreeland 64]

Awesome pics

[jimbob999 4]

Where is this place