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17-Jan-2009 06:00
How convenient to have guards working FOR you! Nice, unique take on the reclining Buddha. How long has he been lying like that? My neck would hurt after 15 minutes!
It is an oddly successful image...the Reclining Buddha is one of the most photographed places in Thailand....but I have never seen all of the Buddha in this fashion before....though I am sure it has been done though I just have not see it.
The place is always packed but the guards shoo'ed people away for me....for which I can only be thankful.
What I'm wondering is "Wot foe" made them put all together here... :) But this is a fasinating perspective, Trav... and I've spent a large amount of time looking at your image. !Lydia
challenge the wat pho?...lol...for those that don't know, Wat in Thai is actually temple, or some equivalent in English, and so Wat Pho...
[i]Wat Pho is the one of the largest and oldest wat in Bangkok (with an area of 50 rai, 80,000 square metres), and is home to more than one thousand Buddha images, as well as one of the largest single Buddha images: the Reclining Buddha (Phra Buddhasaiyas, Thai พระพุทธไสยาสน์). Made as part of Rama III's restoration, the Reclining Buddha is forty-six metres long and fifteen metres high, decorated with gold plating on his body and mother of pearl on his eyes and the soles of his feet. The latter display 108 auspicious scenes in Chinese and Indian styles.[/i]
[i]The Wat Pho complex consists of two walled compounds bisected by Soi Chetuphon running east-west. The northern walled compound is where the reclining Buddha and massage school are found. The southern walled compound, Tukgawee, is a working Buddhist monastery with monks in residence and a school.[/i]
Nice perspective, Traveller. I like the exposure all the way through the shadow on the face to the detail in the doorway. Really gives the challenge the wat pho.
Ok, bad pun, sorry.
=Danny Boy
