Pink Trumpet Tree Blossom in Bangkok

These are beautiful days in Bangkok, those trees with pink flowers are blooming.

We were waiting for a bus to go to Chinatown but we could not resist and went into the courtyard of Ramkhamhaeng University, Bang Na Campus (on the google.maps) to look at these trees closer.

An enchanting sight: the flowers form fluffy pink carpets under trees.

Another gust of wind suddenly blows flowers from a particular tree and you see something similar to a pink snowfall.

Hard to leave without interacting with the flowers:

touching them,

trying on them as decoration,

or making Halloween claws of them 😁

Yes, there was much for social media but didn't we forget ourselves, doing cute silly things, as it used to be in childhood?

Alleys in Ramkhamhaeng University on the weekend were an ideal place to enjoy the blossom. No traffic there and no crowds of people. Birds feel at ease. I spotted a red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) there and heard the signal of coppersmith barbet (Psilopogon haemacephalus). I will come back for shooting birds there with a larger lens (70-300mm).

Pink trumpet tree (Handroanthus impetiginosus) is relatively common in Thailand,

there is even a celebration of its blossom in Nakhon Pathom called Chompoo Pantip Blossom Festival, as it turned out.

But the homeland of the tree is not Asia but America. It grows in a space between Mexico and Argentina, and it is the national plant of Paraguay as Wikipedia states.

We visited several places last weekend but this walk that returned us to childish carelessness and dreams was surely the highlight.

More Bangkok stories are ahead! Check out the previous ones on my pinmapple.com

I took these images with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G on full-frame DSLR Nikon D750 on March 11, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand