Wat Pho!

Hello again! I realized while writing my last post that I failed to write and/or post any pictures about my trip to Wat Pho! So here's my second post for the day!


On Friday, June 8th (my dad's birthday- happy birthday Dad!!), we took a group trip down to Wat Pho, a very famous Buddhist temple located adjacent to the Grand Palace temple complex.  This temple is home to the Reclining Buddha, an absolutely enormous and awe-inspiring statue.

 The Reclining Buddha

 Amazing detail on the outside of the temple.

It wasn't easy to get a good picture of it, but hopefully 

this gives you some perspective to how big it was!!

Aside from the grandeur of the Reclining Buddha, the rest of the temple complex was just as incredible! We walked around for a few hours at least, completely in awe of what we were seeing. The colors (especially against the backdrop of the perfectly blue sky- something we hadn't seen in a few days in Thailand) was just unreal. 

*Sidenote- each of the tall tower-like structures represent where someone's ashes are buried. The very tall ones are for some kings of the Chakri dynasty (the current dynasty in power).

 Wat Pho

Happy birthday Tom!!

Me and some friends on the steps

of one of the temple towers.

After Wat Pho, a small group of us went to explore more of downtown Bangkok, and ended up going to a European Film Festival, where we saw a movie in Czech! Cool ending for a pretty cool day :)