Temple of Heaven

Free & easy...with my best friend,PJ(Poh Joo)...Wonderful trip...Bangkok really is a shopping heaven ...Anyway ,these also have some nice temple to visit them.

Today we visited lots of temples, temple of heaven & the lama temple (with 30m Buddha statue which is in the Guinness book of records) each temple was surrounded by impressive gardens with lots of OAP activity again, including mass communal singing all ...

... stairs, and look out over wonderful view. Wednesday 18th July 2004 Smaller temples today, and more further afield. Bantay Srei, small temple where there are many carvings, in more detail than you see at the other temples, and was a fair distance ...

... We soon started stopping every 5 minutes due to the magnitude of the site, wondering around the darken alleys ways to temple top views across the northern plains. Pictures dont really do the area justice, one day of exploring the northern plains, ...

... what it must be like to go take a visit. The best time to see these pagodas (by the way a pagoda or Stupa is a solid temple not possible to enter, whereas a temple can be entered and always has one of more Buddha images as a central focus point) is just ...

If you have the urge to see some temples, then this is the place to come. Temple heaven. We had to stick to seeing just the big ones otherwise we would have wanted to commit harikari by the end of our stay. But they really are very peaceful and ...

We are staying at the most gorgeous Ryokan. Its very traditional and my room is huge. We had an included dinner here in the Ryokan and we were all requested to wear Yukata that the Ryokan provided. I must say that I felt fairly silly but I think ...

... leaning on the wall, which entirely took away the fun of the place that I remember. The last structure is the familiar Temple of Heaven.  This is the real deal!  It's the real temple symbolizing China in the EPCOT Center in Florida's Disney ...

       After breakfast we took the subway again, and this time it was to the Temple of Heaven, a huge complex incredibly even bigger than the Forbidden City.  At the entrance, as Anna was buying the tickets, I saw a ...

... before dawn I was falling asleep, and mildly relived to be let go to head back to bed for a while before departing the Temple. Overall, this was a wonderful experience! It wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, as I’m pretty huge into the whole ...

... off at Shojoshin-in, where I was lodging, all that vehicular uncertainty was almost worth it. The area surrounding the temple was unexpectedly beautiful among the massive cypresses in the adjoining cemetery.  Though there are hostels and hotel ...