Here a wat, there a wat

There are some 500 wats (Buddhist temples) in Bangkok alone. For a city of 11 million people, you need that many I guess. Each one seems to be more ornate and glittering than the rest. While in the city, we saw most of the major historical wats while in the city, and toured the grand palace where the royal family resides. The photos can’t even begin to do justice to how lavish and impressive everything was there. Interesting factoid we learned along th way: ‘The King and I’ – in any version – is illegal to watch here in Thailand. The kind is considered infallible and the movie does not portray him this way. Our tour guide at one particular wat said he had to watch the film in a locked room with a guard.

PICTURES OF BANGKOK