Wat Arun, which translates in English to Temple of the Dawn, is arguably the most beautiful temple in all of BKK (in the background of the picture above)... It's made of old ceramic tiles that basically cover the entire temple or wat.
The King directed this construction, and it is absolutely stunning! The stairs are Angkor Wat style aka so steep you have to walk side ways to climb up!
At the top, after the crazy stairs, are amazing views of the beautiful but crazy city of Bangkok in the midst of a river view. Basically if you ever come to BKK you must come here. It’s a stunning Buddhist temple with an incredible view of this city!
Across the river on the same side of town is Wat Pho another awesome, probably in our opinion the 2nd most beautiful temple in BKK. Inside this huge wat complex (where our friend Harry and I were filmed for an interview by some Thai students doing a project for a film class, very funny experience) is the largest reclining Buddha in Thailand nonetheless made of gold! Woah!
Along the backside of Buddha are about 50-100 small tin/copper basins where you purchase of bunch if 1 Baht coins and put one in each basin successively for good luck whilst making a wish... It's very challenging to make 50 wishes in a row!
Needless to say we found the wats stunning as well as enlightening and we left so inspired that we ended our day at Khao San road (a different type of worship place) with a couple of buckets!
All in all another amazing day as Bangkok invaders!
Xoxo,
Jenny, Nichole, and Christy
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