Tag: temple

I wake up in my hotel room, pack my stuff and it is time to go to Phanom Rung the other Khmer temple at the border of Cambodia. After a nice evening with expats it is now time to go ahead. I get out and […]

    Finally I arrive at Korat.  Korat is the abbreviation for Nakhon Ratchasima.  It is much shorter but most of all much easier to remember. Korat has nothing really it is a medium large city, capital of the province which has the same name.  It is […]

As agreed the previous day Steven Seagal is there in front of the gate at 9AM.  And off we go for the temple run.  We expect to visit 7 or 8 additional temples today. I must say I am very impressed by Ayuthaya, first it […]

First morning in Ayuthaya.  The guest house is just fantastic.  What a change with Bangkok.  I decide to chill out a little bit and enjoy the garden.  I take time to write some posts and review my pictures. Early afternoon I decide to go to […]

  Wat Pho is basically a Buddhist monastery, even the very first monastery built in the new capital. Before Bangkok was established as the capital by King Rama I a temple existed already on the site. It was originally named Wat Photaram or Podharam, from […]