Suan Dok Temple

Thailand. A new adventure. Day 12. January 5, 2008

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January 11th 2008
Saturday. January 5. Day 12. Earning merit. 5:45 am. We board our bus and head to Wat Sri Soda, a novice monk school, to participate in the feeding of the monks. The novices walk down the hill barefoot in the dark, wrapped in their thin orange robes. At first they move in pairs or trios, but as it gets lighter almost a steady stream of boys and young men flow down the mountain carrying ... 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