Huai Saneng, Surin Province, Thailand

4HotelRoomsAndTravel 5:00 PM Aug 6, 2015

Somewhere to chill out
Don't expect the Great Lakes, but enjoy a change from the city with the chance of lovely sunsets. Watch the fishermen cast their nets, and try the restaurants overlooking the lake. Follow the road past farmers and their buffaloes, with egrets keen to perch in the time-honoured style. Hear the splash as Nile Perch flash in the sunlit fish ponds. See the local children play in the water as their parents enjoy a picnic.

3David B 5:00 PM Apr 17, 2016

Popular with Locals
Huai Saneng Reservoir is one of two large reservoirs that provide the water supply to Surin, in Thailand's north east. It is located 5 km from Surin on the Surin-Prasat Highway 24. It is very popular with locals, who use its banks for picnics, fish, of watch sometimes spectacular sunsets. It is also a great place for the kids to jump in the water with rubber tyres and cool off in the summer heat. There are food vendors walking up and down with trays of snacks. We had two bottles of chilled Singha beer, so took six small serves of the snack offerings. We had red ants eggs in a spicy salad, fried crickets (yes, as in the insects), small crispy fried fish (no more than 2 cm long), raw tiny shrimps in a spicy salad, hard boiled quail eggs and crispy fried tiny shrimps. The snacks are 20 baht each, or 3 for 50 baht. I wasn't too keen on the fried crickets, but the other snacks went down very well with my icy cold beer.