Bangkok Photos

Sandy and I visited the Grand Palace and the temple of the emerald buddha in Bangkok. Overall, there was more gold and more mosaic work than I've ever seen in my life -even in Venice. Many Thai people were there, some making pilgimages and offerings to the emeral buddha. This photo is of one of the structures surrounding the temple.

Here is a close up of one of the figures at the base of the picture above.

This is at the National Museum, which my teaching partner Sandy and I visited last week.