Sorry its been a little while since I have posted. I’m a bit behind due to everything that’s happening.
Anyway, we went on a field trip today! Our language teacher took us to a place called “Buddha Park”. We took a bus there. It was a bit of a drive (45 minutes or so), but it was really nice to be able to look out on the streets and see how the landscape changed as we got farther away from the city. As soon as we got there we saw a whole garden full of different ancient figures. There was one that was a giant dome-like temple you could actually climb up inside to get to the top.
The whole park was actually built 75 years ago by a monk who studied both Buddhism and Hinduism. Even though it is called Buddha Park a lot of the statues are important to the Hindu religion.
So of course we decided to go in and climb up it! We entered the “mouth” of the dome.
Inside it was so cool. We had to go up some precarious looking steps to get to this room that had a whole bunch of statues in it.
And so finally we ascended to the top where we had to climb out yet another mouth.
When we got to the top it was a beautiful view of the whole park. I looked up at the top of the temple, which made me feel a bit dizzy.
So after admiring the view for a bit we headed down and out through the mouth again.
We then walked around and looked at all the other statues at the park. Here are a few of our favourites.
There were also a whole bunch of the most beautiful butterflies flying around and landing on all the flowers. They were very fast and almost impossible to photograph. Luckily, we did get this guy who is yet to become a butterfly.
As we were walking around we found another little temple you could climb up, but this one was very steep and probably wouldn’t be allowed in North America. I climbed up it a little bit but I was too scared to go all the way.
It was a very eventful and fun day. I hope you all are doing well! La Garn!
*Word of the day: wat (pronounced w-aw-t), it means temple.
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What a day. Must of been nice to get out of the city. How cool to be able climb and crawl thru the temples. I love the one resting their head on their hand- looks like someone napping amongst the trees- so peaceful.
Don’t worry about not posting- I’m sure we all don’t want to miss anything and really look forward to the posts, but we get that your busy. And the anticipation makes it fun!
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It was really nice! I loved Buddha Park. I agree I love the one that looks like its lying down too!
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WOW 🙂 AMAZING park — a different time — an amazing culture 🙂 khwap jai Taya ….. I cannot wait to share these pictures and your wonderful explanations with Noah and Adalyn — they will be here for a sleep-over soon … gorgeous photo of your Mom ( she looks like an energetic kid, hehe ) and so love seeing you, of course xo AND that mouth – quite a great sized tongue haha ….. the wats are awesome — some day maybe I will come like the butterflies — I love you soooooooooooooo much — phob kan mai —
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What a cool adventure! Definitely see the mix of hindu and Buddhist influence. We saw a lot of that in our India travels. It makes you realize what a young culture we have! Khwap jai, Taya!
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It looks like that was a jam-packed day!
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It was!
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