Climbing Wat Arun

Posted on 30 August 20139 June 2014 by Dan Visel

Wat Arun (seen previously) is maybe the most scenic temple in Bangkok. It’s on the other side of the river, so you need to take a ferry to get there. Though it’s the rainy season, we had fine weather for a river crossing:

When you get off the ferry, you can feed the catfish (previously), and you’re greeted by some fine stone crocodiles:

While you can’t climb all the way to the top, you can go a good distance up:

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And at the top there are very nice views of the Chao Phraya, which is fairly busy in this section:

There is plenty more to say about this place, but I don’t know very much, so that’s all.

Lest you think it’s all fruit & good times here

Posted on 30 August 201330 August 2013 by Dan Visel

Sometimes it’s sadness and fish:

The rice soup place across the street . . .

Posted on 29 August 201330 August 2013 by Dan Visel

. . . takes their fish very seriously; these aren’t the biggest they’ve displayed:

Exacerbating the catfish problem

Posted on 29 August 20139 June 2014 by Dan Visel

When you get off the ferry to Wat Arun, you can buy bags of old bread to feed the catfish for 10 baht. This quickly leads to insanity:

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Maybe this the most excitement you can buy anywhere for thirty cents?

Breakfast this morning . . .

Posted on 29 August 201310 October 2013 by Dan Visel

. . . consisted of an egg, some pomelo, baby bananas, mangosteens, and rambutans. Harriet was joined by Arthur, a snail.

Visiting Wat Pho

Posted on 29 August 20139 June 2014 by Dan Visel

I’m still catching up on old posts. We went to visit Wat Pho last week; first, we stopped by the dock to have an almost certainly overpriced, but still delicious, mango and sticky rice:

(Across the river is Wat Arun, where we’re planning on going today.) Wat Pho is best known for its enormous Buddha, which is tricky to photograph especially when you’re as incompetent as I am:

The grounds of the Wat are pleasant, full of little statues that I don’t know enough about but that the baby enjoyed:

And the cloisters are shady and cool:

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The Bangkok Protestant Cemetery

Posted on 28 August 201310 October 2013 by Dan Visel

Just down the street from us (though hidden away) is the Bangkok Protestant Cemetery, which you can learn about here. Harriet liked it mostly because it was full of snails. There are some nice stones, which deserve better photos than these:

The catfish problem at Thewet

Posted on 28 August 201310 October 2013 by Dan Visel

The catfish in the river near the express boat stop at Thewet Market are used to being fed by passersby:

Time on boats

Posted on 28 August 2013 by Dan Visel

We spend a lot of time on boats or on the river. Here’s Harriet inspecting the Chao Phraya from a Japanese restaurant in River City, an enormous shopping center: