The Grand Palace

Day 28 - The Grand Palace, Reclining Buddha and Emerald Buddha

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November 3rd 2008
Joey lefet early for work leaving me to my own devices for the day. She had left me some sugestions and so off I went. I jumped on the monorail to the river and once there, caught a tourist boat down stream a few piers to Wat Po - a big temple on the tourist route. Here I saw the reclining Buddha - a huge gold statue of a budda lying lengthways and lookin down into the room. Its little toe was ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more