Thailand
Bangkok ~ Day 2
HOT HOT HOT 99F 100% HUMIDITY
The next day we went on a day walk of the old town across the river. You take these express boats on the river for like 2 cents to travel as far as you want. We feed turtles papaya at a monastery grave yard, saw Dutch style homes, a European church, a famous temple (called Wat) called Wat Chedi and another across the river called Wat Po with a 150 foot reclining Buddha. Angela got a 1/2 traditional Thai massage, I got a new sexy Thai massage (just kidding).
Across the river there is this Wat of the Dawn.
Right now they are restoring it. It was originally built with pottery
chards donated by the local residents.
One courtyard of 75 square yards at Wat Po was lined with Golden
Buddhas.
This is one close up.
There was this neat rock formation with some flowering trees and these
hermits praying in different positions.
There is a 150 foot long reclining Buddha that dominates Wat Po.
This is a shot of his head.
That night we went to an awesome, expensive for Thailand ($19) dinner in downtown and then we went to Patpong…. the seediest street with all the sex shows. I personally wanted to go in and see “PUSSY EATING WITH CHOPSTICKS” but Angela made me buy 2 ripped off polo shirts at the night market in the middle of the Patpong… the night market was the excuse 90% of the people used to see Patpong, but the sex trade is all over Thailand and there are a LOT of single western men touring.