Hi! I hope you all are doing great. I spent a few more days in Koh Samui and had a lot of fun. I took a tour of the island, which included several different sights. One was the mummified monk. It was kind of creepy. The monk died in 1973 and his followers noticed that his body was not decaying, so they displayed it in a glass coffin, believing that this was a Buddhist miracle. He still has some hair, fingernails and very leathery skin! It looks kind of funny because they put sunglasses on him so people wouldn't be scared of his face with no eyes. He also predicted his own death, but I'm not sure how he died. Here I was given a string bracelet, tapped on the head with straw and water
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