For our last night in Bangkok before heading to Cambodia, Susan and I taxi’d it from the hotel to the Chinatown section of the city to walk along its main drag and find a place to eat. Steering clear of all the eateries specializing in the shark fin and bird nest soups — the former …
In a place where there can never be enough images of the country’s predominant religious icon it might be disrespectful for me to say it: another day, another Buddha. But this one, installed in an annex at Wat Traimit near Bangkok’s Chinatown district is especially mindblowing. The largest of its kind in the world, it …
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 …
We saw a lot of amazing things today. Here’s what I found inside Bangkok’s Temple of The Dawn, otherwise known as the 200-year-old Wat Arun:
Just as I’ve previously asked you to forgive my lack of personal experience with the timewarp that is the International Date Line, I beg you to suffer my fascination with rivers. It’s the waterway-deprived angeleno in me that can’t help but point a camera at Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river below our hotel and capture a …
The Chao Phraya River, Bangkok: Forgive me this being my first time across the international date line, but it’s very confusing. Last I checked it was Tuesday in Los Angeles, but as I type this from our 16th-floor room at the Shangri-La Hotel in Bangkok, it’s 7:30 a.m. Thursday morning. We literally made Wednesday never …
In part because I’m still in somewhat of a long-standing state of disbelief, I haven’t done much posting as we’ve been approaching our upcoming once-in-a-lifetime trip. But after more than a year of knowing about it and waiting for it — bam: the vacation has graduated from upcoming to happening and the time is upon …