Temple Of The Reclining Buddha

Among other places visited today was Wat Pho, home of the famous 150-foot-long, 50-foot-high gold-plated reclining Buddha, designed to illustrate his passage into nirvana:

Here’s a quick pan from head to toes:

The sound you hear is that of prayer coins being dropped into a long line of bowls behind Buddha, which looks a little something like this: