Some of days in Chiang Mai are spent quite lazily- getting up late and just wandering around the place is nice though. We get a tuk tuk to visit a couple of the temples one of the days. They are stunning, so much hard-work has clearly gone into making these sacred buildings and the giant gold Buddhas inside are breathtaking....but the thing is - all the temples are stunning , all the Buddha statues are amazing so with 2 and half temples visited we're pretty sure we get the idea! The two main ones we saw were Wat Chedi Luang with this cool big ruin of a Chedi (a type of shrine-I think!) out the back, and the larger Wat Phra Singh where there seemed to be a bigger community of monks. Both temples offer "Monk Chat" where you can go up to the monks and talk to them about Buddhism or what its like to be a monk or just life in general, but eh we can't really think of any intelligent questions so we decide to leave it out, in case the conversation ended up like this: "So...you like wearing orange? Hows that working out for you". (awkward silence).....
They are interesting to watch though and it's amusing when you see them doing something like texting on their mobile- you just don't expect it! or a bunch of young monks (10 or 11) piles into a phone-box messing about.
Again with the dogs (I apologise) - when we are leaving one of the temples an animal runs past me and I do a double take because it looks like some kind of lion- when we get up closer I see someone picking up the (originally fluffy) dog who's hair they have clipped in such a way to make him look like a lion.(mane,fluffy bit on the end of his tail etc) Oh the bizarreness of this place is great!
We book a trip for the next day to go trekking in the mountains.
Wat Chedi Luang
They are interesting to watch though and it's amusing when you see them doing something like texting on their mobile- you just don't expect it! or a bunch of young monks (10 or 11) piles into a phone-box messing about.
Again with the dogs (I apologise) - when we are leaving one of the temples an animal runs past me and I do a double take because it looks like some kind of lion- when we get up closer I see someone picking up the (originally fluffy) dog who's hair they have clipped in such a way to make him look like a lion.(mane,fluffy bit on the end of his tail etc) Oh the bizarreness of this place is great!
We book a trip for the next day to go trekking in the mountains.
Wat Chedi Luang
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