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pont Rama IX
Rama IX bridge
Bangkok
Ce pont porte le nom du roi récemment décédé
This bridge was named after the king who recently died
Good evening dear Flickr-Friends of night photography and gifts of love!
"The night belongs to lovers". I remember this sentence but I am not sure what the context was. Was it in the 80th? A song text? Did I only babbled this perhaps in a sleepless night? Or was the right text "The night belongs to breakfast?" The truth is, that I wake up every night at 3:20 a.m., ready for breakfast (remember: the evil jet lag).
This night it was different. The cat was on tour tonight, came home, went out again, this little hunter of the night. At last when she came home at 3:20 a.m. I put on the little light and I saw that she had brought me a fresh mouse directly into my bed. Wow... that made me really happy. But she just wanted to show me her love and brought me something for breakfast.
I wanted to make some x-ray-files from the cat, especially from the brain, but I was too tired. We ate the mouse later together. Deep fried mouse with garlic sauce. Somehow this bothers me all day, this fried stuff. Next time we will make a soup.
Good night my friends!
Your Yarin
As I have been focusing on last year's South West Coast Path walks you may have forgotten that I live in Thailand these days. As we near the end of term and our first year here I thought I would bring you some more pictures showing our new home city.
Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan or Wat Arun, ("Temple of Dawn") is a Buddhist temple (wat) in Bangkok Yai district of Bangkok, Thailand, on the Thonburi west bank of the Chao Phraya River. The temple derives its name from the Hindu god Aruna, often personified as the radiations of the rising sun. Wat Arun is among the best known of Thailand's landmarks. The first light of the morning reflects off the surface of the temple with pearly iridescence. Although the temple had existed since at least the seventeenth century, its distinctive prang (spires) were built in the early nineteenth century during the reign of King Rama II.
(Divine Seat of Personal Freedom), at the Royal Summer Palace near Bangkok, Thailand; A short drive of 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of Bangkok along the banks of the Chaopraya River will bring you to Bang Pa In, summer palace of the kings of Thailand. The palace dates back to the seventeenth century, pre-dating the establishment of Bangkok as the capitol, although it did fall into disuse for a long period. All the buildings you see date from its revival by King Mongkut (Rama IV) in the nineteenth century. Today, the palace is only used infrequently, and then mostly for state occasions rather than as a royal summer residence.
A very short drive of 60 kilometers north of Bangkok along the banks of the Chao Praya River will bring you to Bang Pa In, summer palace of the kings of Thailand.
Even though this temple is on the river, and makes for great images, the first of several rain clouds building up above the temple was too good not to shoot.
The temple is one of around 30 along the banks of the Chaopraya river in Pathumthani province. But keep driving and one arrives in Ayudhya, where temples abound.
“Wat Pho is our absolute favorite among Bangkok's biggest sights. In fact, the compound incorporates a host of superlatives: the city's largest reclining Buddha, the largest collection of Buddha images in Thailand and the country's earliest center for public education.”
Read more:
www.lonelyplanet.com/thailand/bangkok/ko-ratanakosin-thon...