Wat Phra Singh in Chang Mai

8 Sep Filed under Culture, Temple, Thailand. Tagged Chiang Mai, Gold, Statue, Temple. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment. Leave a Trackback (URL).

I love how they put real glasses on the statue… Maybe they were actually even the real dude ones…

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The fights were actually a bit disapointing since they mainly featured 12 years old, but the impressive part really was outside the ring, on the arena seats. There hundreds of furious locals were betting money on every fight, screaming, waving money in the air and running around

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In Chiang Mai there is this park called “Tiger Kingdom” where you can actually go fool around with big ass (or baby) tigers. Scary at first, but the beasts are controlled by some local tiger wizards and they’re actually pretty sleepy. The employees there say it is just because they were born in captivity, but we actually wondered if they also had a Prozac based diet.

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djib

Posted 8 Sep ’10 at 10:15 am | Permalink

Is that Gandhi? It would make sense.
Nice picture. I like how the reflection lines up with the eyes.

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- Cyril Maury
  
  Posted 8 Sep ’10 at 10:34 am | Permalink
  
  Yep I think you right it very well might be Gandhi…
Christine

Posted 17 Sep ’10 at 1:06 am | Permalink

I absolutely, positively love the colors in this photo. It’s really just gorgeous.

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