Bangkok
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Bangkok market woman with
her wares
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Reclining Buddha head at
Wat Po, Bangkok. It's enormous.--15 meters high and 46 meters long.
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My favorite food stall in
Bangkok. Very yummy pineapple-beef-chili skewers. Notice the bicycle
at one end.
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A soup vendor in Bangkok.
When business slows, she just picks up the baskets and moves on.
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| A gargoyle near the Grand Palace | Buddhist monks in the Grand Palace. Most Thai men become monks for at least a brief period of their lives. | Statue in the Grand Palace. These are so detailed you can make out the embroidery patterns on their robes! | Detail from the feet of the Reclining Buddha (Grand Palace, Bangkok). The feet stand at least fifteen feet tall and are covered with 108 detailed mother-of-pearl images like this one. |
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| King cobra at the Snake Farm in Bangkok. I think king cobras are actually pretty cute. :-) | Siamese cobras at the Snake Farm. They breed 6 kinds of deadly snakes there to provide antivenin, supplying most of Southeast Asia. | Blue kraits. The expression here clearly says, "Why am I holding two of the most venomous snakes in Asia?" | Milking a cobra for its venom. The venom itself looks like just a few drops of clear oil. |
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| Me with a very lethargic Burmese python. | A Scots-Irish-Canadian-Thai (!) band fiddles away at Ploenchit Fair, an annual charity event sponsored by the British Embassy. | Bow and halberd-thingie for body painting | A very nice summary of Thailand IMO: beautiful scenery, massive construction, and modernism with smog. |
