Ayutthaya

  I wasn’t kidding yesterday about being in Buddha overdrive.  If there are a million Buddha statues in Bangkok, I’ve probably seen 999,999 of them.  First there’s the colossal reclining golden Buddha at Wat Pho that measures a whopping 46 meters long.  His feet alone measure 3 meters long and are inlaid with mother-of-pearl illustrations of laksanas.  He is completely …

Buddha Overdrive in Bangkok

  When I was at Mayacama we snuck out of the compound for some Thai food and it reminded me of a trip to Bangkok in 2005.    It was actually a very brief two-day breeze through Thailand on the way to a rendezvous with my parents in Vietnam. They had not been back to VN since 1975 so that …