Today was my first real day in Bangkok so my Thai friends from Juniata and I met up. First I saw the Temple of the Golden Buddha, while many Thai temples have golden Buddha statues this is the most golden of the golden Buddhas. It is actually made of real cast gold, as opposed to being covered in gold leaf, and, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest intrinsic value of any religious object on Earth. It is defiantly a cool thing. While there, I saw two exhibits, one on the Buddha itself and one on the Thai of Chinese Dissent. The Buddha exhibit was actually kind of helpful. The Chinese Thai exhibit was also kind of interesting. While the Buddha kind of ended up in Bangkok's Chinatown I heard it is fitting since the Chinese are basically New York's Jews. They both left their homelands for a more prosperous nation because of political instability and have built reputations in the gold and jewelry industries. The Chinese seem to have been in Bangkok since before there was an America though. I then had lunch and checked out a small park with two train cars bring reused as libraries. Finally I went to Suan Lumphini, Bangkok's big urban park, to walk around and meet my friends. Just FYI, Bangkok has giant lizards just walking around the park. The picture of the giant lizard is one that was one of about 400 that is just in the park. My friends and I had dinner at a grilling type of place before having drinks at a trendy mall.
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shaon
12/29/2016 11:00:02 am
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Dad
12/29/2016 11:13:44 am
Sounds like a great day. I guess I would be difficult to steal the gold Buddha without an industrial crane which might attract a little attention.
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Gramma M.
1/2/2017 07:12:55 am
Loved the "library car." Golden B. also impressive. You don't miss a thing and love being shown around the city by proxy.
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