Highlights of My Week, Part 1
Tuesday and Wednesday I had the privilege of spending time with 2 new friends from the US. After visiting IGO Ministries and touring in Chiang Mai, they travelled to Phuket to enjoy some island scenery, then flew in to Bangkok to do some sight-seeing here.
Darlene and Norma
The first day we went to the Grand Palace.
We passed these guards on our way out. A bit later we saw another guard, from whom I asked directions to Wat Po. He answered very quietly and very briefly--I think maybe I wasn't supposed to be talking to him.....:)
We found Wat Po, though we did need to ask another person to be sure we were going the right way. Wat Po is one of the oldest temples in Bangkok and is famous for its HUGE reclining Buddha statue (150 feet long x 49 feet high) which fills the temple.
Wat Po is also considered to be the birthplace of traditional Thai massage and houses a massage school on its premises. Therefore, we felt it important to experience a foot massage by women trained at this school.:)
Thanks to one of my many wonderful friend in the States, I have some spending money intended to be used for purposes such as this! Besides, it's therapeutic.:)
We wound down our day eating at S & P, an inexpensive but nice Thai restaurant chain in Bangkok, then headed for home to rest up for our excursions the next day.