Amazing Thai Ways

วิถีชีวิตไทย

2007/2550-10-01

Definitive stamps

D2007/12-21

3 Baht (10 designs)

4 Baht (10 designs)

40 Baht (unused), 15 Baht (used)

Unused set

31 x 31 mm

5,000,000 pieces per design

Thai British Security Printing Public Company Limited, Thailand

The traditional Thai ways of life: 1. collecting sugar from the coconut palm using short bamboo cylinders called krabok tahn; 2. selling kuay tiyaw reua noodles from a sampan paddle boat; 3. carving sculptures from wood, including a large statue of Erawan made from teakwood; 4. tak baat, i.e. offering food to a Buddhist monk, who is on bintabaat, i.e. alms-begging round, in a reua khem paddle boat; 5. releasing kohm loy lanterns; 6. carving nang thalung puppets used in shadow play; 7. selling tropical flowers, such as orchids, at the Pahk Khlong flower market in Bangkok; 8. weaving soom kai chicken coops, used for keeping poultry; 9. selling fruit, such as rambutan, from reua jaew and reua tae paddle boats at Damnoen Saduak floating market; 10. elephants and their mahouts working with wooden logs

coconut palm, bamboo, krabok tahn, kuay tiyaw, reua, noodles, sampan, Asian Elephant, teakwood, Erawan, tak baat, monk, bintabaat, reua khem, kohm loy, nang thalung, shadow play, orchid, khlong, Bangkok, soom kai, rambutan, reua jaew, reua tae, Damnoen Saduak, floating market, mahout, talaat nahm