There was a Rotary District Meeting that my host mom took me to, but because it would involve me sitting in a room for a good 8 or so hours, my host mom didn't think that was fair to me, so I was allowed to go sightseeing. Two of my other Rotary Exchange friends were there, so we got to hang out for a bit and see the town.
Our first stop was at this temple. I wrote the name somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment, so you will have to bear with me. Um...not much to say about this picture, its the the big pointy thing in the background is the main part of the temple, we got to go up it and do all sorts of things-I'll explain a bit later.
Inside the building that has the staircase leading to the big pointy thing in the above picture. This was a Buddha statue, and I know its somewhat rude of me to get my picture taken like this, but it was really tempting. I didn't notice the monk behind me, but Fernanda (the girl who took the picture for me) said that he looked at me with a slight look of disaproval, so I felt a bit bad about that.
The staircase leading up to the main part of the temple. It's kind of a trippy picture, but we wanted to get all of the staircase in, and this was the only way we could get it all in. There were lots of different decorations up and down the side of the staircase, featuring dragons, giants, and Buddha's. The staircase itself was pretty impressive.
Emi from Japan, Fernanda from Brazil and myself posing infront of the wall at the top of the temple. It was really sunny, so I had to wear my sunglasses :). The orange "blanket" in my hand is actually a part of a monks robe. Fernanda wanted to keep hers, but we wouldn't let her because that wasn't really proper.
On our first trip around the top of the temple, we got to ring the bells that were everywhere. If you rang every set of bells, you would have good luck. Just about everything you do here gives you good luck, or something along those lines. You have to walk around the temple three times, and then your wish would come true, or it would start to come true....something along those lines. It was quite fun, but the ground was extremely hot due to the sun, and the fact that you had to take your shoes off before you entered the temple. Bad day to wear flip flops. haha
A side look looking down one of the roads within the temple. Not much to see here, and we were on a time limit, so there wasn't much time to go explore every nook and cranny of the temple.
We did some other sights, like take in a zoo, lunch, and market, but they weren't all that special. We were supposed to go elephant riding at the zoo, but the zoo wasn't running their elephant rides that day, so I will have to wait until December to ride my elephant.
Our next stop was at the Phromlok Waterfall. If we had brought our swimming suits, or at least a spare set of clothing, we could swim, but because we didn't know this, we didn't get to swim. We did however, get to climb all over the rocks, to get some pretty cool pictures. I got stuck a few times, due to my insanely short legs (I blame moms genes, haha just kidding, I love you mom :)) The other people who were with us, were more than willing to help me get across, with a few short jokes made in between.
Fernanda, one of the guides, and myself, with the waterfall in the background. It was a pretty nice waterfall, and it felt awesome dipping our hot feet into the cold water :)
A picture of the actual waterfall, or at least part of it, without many people. The second tier from the top (behind the dark pointy triangle rock) is where the majority of people swam. We didn't go up that far because we were feeling lazy, and didn't want to climb that long distance :)
And this is a long shot of the entire waterfall from where we were standing. It was an awesome day, but getting home late made us pretty tired. This all happened on September 25th, 2010.
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