About three-hour bus ride after we took off from KKU, we arrived at Sirindhorn Museum and Phu Kum Khao Dinosaur Excavation Site in Kalasin province. The museum is a research center as well as being the largest and most complete dinosaur museum in Southeast Asia. I was excited since the dinosaur fossils I'd seen in Taiwan were all duplicates, but here they were all real ones. The photo is me with a dinosaur's femur. According to my little knowledge of animal anatomy, they seemed not very different from the ones of cattles or horses of present days, except a lot bigger in size.
The most complete dinosaur skeleton found to date in Thailand. Below was an illustration of the dinosaur.
Trace fossils. Some of the fossils were left on the floor without protection and without 'no touching' signs, so I figured since they have so many of them, it was okay to have one or two pieces of them for the tourists to touch and 'destroyed'.
The research of the center is not confined to dinosaurs but also mammals, invertebrates, plants, and trace fossils. 
We spent the night in a tradional Thai style wooden house of the local people. The village is under the project called OTOP (One Tambon One Product)http://www.thai-otop-city.com/, which is a project carried out by the Thai government to help promote the local industry through the manufacturing of attractive specialty products based on the abundant native culture, tradition and nature.
Me and Linh, standing in front of the house we spent overnight. This kind of houses had two floors, but the first floors were usually garages or, I had seen some of them, little farms for keeping livestocks. Luckily ours was just a garage or we definitely wouldn't sleep well with the smell coming from below. 
No hot and tap water for shower was the toughest thing we had to bear. There were two bathrooms outside the house we slept in, and basically there were only a toilet and few bucket of cold water in them. Never did we thought that those water were for shower until we couldn't find any shower nozzle or faucet. The weather was pretty cold at night so we just had a quick shower and I brushed me teeth with bottled water since the water wasn't so clean at all. 
No hot and tap water for shower was the toughest thing we had to bear. There were two bathrooms outside the house we slept in, and basically there were only a toilet and few bucket of cold water in them. Never did we thought that those water were for shower until we couldn't find any shower nozzle or faucet. The weather was pretty cold at night so we just had a quick shower and I brushed me teeth with bottled water since the water wasn't so clean at all. This was our dinner: rice, omelet, and herbs. Not so fascinating, isn't it? The rice and omelet were fine, but the herbs... They just tasted like leaves and grass.
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