It seemed to us that all of the main cultural sights of Bangkok were located right adjacent to each other. The Grand Palace was closed, so we walked past it to Wat Pho. It is one of the large temples in Bangkok. (Just to be clear, I am not sure, but it seems to me that the same complex is alternately called either Wat Pho, or Wat Phra. If this is not the case, then we saw one, but not the other, and I am not sure abou the name of the one that we saw (although I am confident that the two names are used for the same place).)
The main attraction at Wat Pho is the Reclining Buddha. It is a large sculpture of the Buddha lying down, as he is dying. Like the other Buddha that we saw yesterday, it is covered in gold, and has the distinct Thai style. Again, other than the face and the size, the sculpture does not appeal to me much because of the lack of detail. The feet were mere blocks with lines in them for toes, and the hands were globs with long cylinders coming from them for fingers. Before we came to Thailand, when I finally got excited about coming, one of the reasons for being excited was to see this sculpture. In any case, it was rather underwhelming, and I just went outside to a fountain and sat down, trying to recover from drinking too much. I let Paola walk around a lot while I sat, which suited me fine. Even though these temples in Thailand were stylistically different from the ones in Japan, I still felt like I saw too many temples, and I wasn’t too excited about seeing another one.
Because we started late, and it took a while to walk to the temple, it got late in the day quickly, and we called it a day. I promised Paola that when we came back to Bangkok at the end of the week, we would see more, and I would not get sick from drinking too much.
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