{"id":276,"date":"2007-04-28T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/?p=276"},"modified":"2007-04-30T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T10:56:59","slug":"bangkoks-last-day-of-sightseeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok&#8217;s Last Day of Sightseeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did manage to squeeze in one last day of sightseeing in Bangkok.  We visited Wat Pho, which is famous for its Reclining Buddha.  We walked to the temple during a surprisingly cool and pleasant afternoon.  Actually, we did still get to do the thing where we say to each other &#8220;Are you hot?&#8221; and then laugh at the beads of sweat completely covering our faces.  But the temperature was low enough to allow the feeling of normal breathing without dizziness.<\/p>\n<p>Once we arrived at the temple I was required to don a long sleeved shirt.  I&#8217;d brought my trusty (and very warm!) Wool 4 shirt from Patagonia.  It was hilarious to wear it on such a hot day.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am in my wool shirt in front of the giants that guard the area.  They are wearing top hats which seems very un-Thai:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/474400334\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/windowslivewriterbangkokslastdayofsightseeing-d7d42007-04-26-13-13-34.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Reclining Buddha was enormous! I hadn&#8217;t been expecting that at all.  It is over 150 ft long and 50 ft high.  Very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>Gigantor head:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/474403799\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/windowslivewriterbangkokslastdayofsightseeing-d7d42007-04-26-12-45-51.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some very large toes to our right:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/474404863\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/windowslivewriterbangkokslastdayofsightseeing-d7d42007-04-26-12-50-11.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" border=\"0\" height=\"228\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outside the temple were lots of these weird creatures that I think are so cute.  They remind me a little bit of Barbie (my cat), so I posed with one in her honor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/474409189\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/windowslivewriterbangkokslastdayofsightseeing-d7d42007-04-26-12-59-04.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To wrap up our very long visit to Bangkok we drank one last fruit shake at our favorite stand.  We got at least one fruit shake a day and the owners started laughing every time they saw us &#8211; they must have thought we had an unnatural love for their fruit shakes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/474413589\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/windowslivewriterbangkokslastdayofsightseeing-d7d42007-04-27-12-51-26.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, in the spirit of a post about gigantic things&#8230;check out how Jamie towers over this little fruit vendor lady!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/erckdotorg\/474414335\/\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.erck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/windowslivewriterbangkokslastdayofsightseeing-d7d42007-04-27-16-39-44.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none \" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did manage to squeeze in one last day of sightseeing in Bangkok. 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