laurenlavoie.com » temples http://laurenlavoie.com A blog Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:51:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Bangkok in one Day http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/305 http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/305#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:23:00 +0000 lauren http://laurenlavoie.com/travel/305 We only have one day in Bangkok – at least for now, we’ll be here again in two weeks for our departure back to Seattle – so we tried to hit the major hotspots today. We spent the first half of the day at the Wats in the historic part of town – the Grand Palace (home of the Emerald Buddha) in the morning, followed by Wat Pho (home of the Reclining Buddha). We experienced our first Thai massages at the massage school in Wat Pho – highly recommended! We will certainly be getting more – at these prices we could get massages every day.

After lunch, we took a cab to Chatuchak Weekend Market, which was huge and crazy and like nothing I’d ever seen before. We weren’t in the market for anything in particular – we ended up purchasing a couple pillow covers and Thai pants – but it was fascinating just to walk through the maze of stalls selling clothing, kitchen appliances, food, puppies (!), and just about anything else you could imagine.

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The Grand Palace

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Kids playing at Wat Pho

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The Reclining Buddha at Wat Pho

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Papaya salad stall at the weekend market.

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