The first place we went in Bangkok (besides the giant MBK shopping mall!) was to Wat Pho, home of the largest reclining Buddha in the world. This is a shot from outside one of the Wat, past some chanting monks, where you can see at the back a golden seated Buddha.

One of the gorgeous gorgeous doors around Wat Pho, decorated in gold, intricate carvings and colored glass.

Around the grounds were these stuppas carved with all kinds of details... flowers, designs etc. So I had to get a photo of some of them to show how colorful they were!

A decorative door arch... this may have actually been from another Wat we stopped at in that first day of walking around town... I'm not entirely sure where my Wat Pho photos ended and these began, as we visited one right after another, and of course making note of that sort of thing would have made things too easy. ;-)

This is Wat Pho again, for sure... this is a photo of the head of the reclining Buddha... it's hard to get an idea of the scale from this photo, but you can sort of see from my angle that my head didn't even come to his armpit.... pretty tall! The Buddha is always depicted with long earlobes, which symbolizes long life. Maybe this is something that could be incorporated into Celtic art... long knotted earlobes? ;-) If you look at the patterned square thing right under his head/ear... this is his pillow. I have a better shot of this from behind in a photo on the next page.

And this is a length shot of him. You can see the door at the far end for scale... and keep in mind those doors are taller than a normal door.