Wat Po

Donating bhat in small brass pots

Day 24 in Bangkok - Buddhas, Wats, and a Grand Palace

March 18th 2012
Today continued our tour d' sweat as we spent the day touring all the big Bangkok sites. The morning was spent visiting the 5 ton golden Buddha and the longest reclining Buddha and two more Wats (Wat Po, Wat Arun). After some meatless pad thai for lunch, we continued our tour with a trip to the Grand Palace (so much bling!), the Emerald Buddha (actually made of jade), and a long boat ride alon ... 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

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Chris and Cheri Wardle

Meatless travelers

We are management consultants from San Francisco. We travel a whole lot for work, but that is nowhere near as much fun as traveling together to countries we have always wanted to visit. We embarked on a 3 month trip around the Asia Pacific in 2012, and used this blog to post pictures and (some) comments for friends and family that want to follow our travels, including our 2-3 week trip around India in an auto-rickshaw! Nearly a year from our 3 month trip, we have again hit the road for a "de-toxing" trip into the mountains and valleys of Patagonia in Argentina and Chile...... full info

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