Until today I could not have said that I was party to borrowing someone’s driver. Today I met up with a friend who is in Bangkok for three days. His friend loaned us his driver and car for the afternoon.
We went to three temples. The most significant chunk of time was spent puzzling over a series of over 130 murals painted on the walls surrounding the one temple complex. There seemed to be many distinct peoples (including non-human spiritual beings) weaving through whatever story was being told.
In one of the murals we spotted a dude chilling on a rock wearing glasses. We asked one guy who was passing by for an explanation, his best guess was that it was done during one of the restorations that take place every 50 years. I need to do some online research to try to figure out the panels.
At one of the temples we saw several people making merit. In the one place people were dropping a coin into each of a long line of bowls. In another people placed gifts of food and flowers at the feet of chanting monks. There was a string passed over all of those people and over the monks as well. I have not yet had a chance to get an explanation of the whole thing from someone in the know.
During dinner I got to meet my friend’s friend. So I now have another friend in this big city. We didn’t get to chat long thanks to the infamous locking of the gate at 10:00.
I better wrap this day up. Peace.
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