Lotsa Buddhas

Shiny Bangkok

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April 1st 2007
One of the things I love about Thailand is that all their important buildings are shiny. The gold ornaments, mirror mosaics, and glazed glasses add color & shine to the buildings, rendering a structure that in the west would be pompous and heavy with its own importance, rather happy, childlike, and cheery. Indeed it is as if the creators' every whimsy was indulged. "Let's put broken plates in the ... 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