{"id":4015,"date":"2016-03-03T05:06:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2016-03-03T05:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:06:33","slug":"two-days-in-thailand-bangkok-and-the-beach-mostly-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/two-days-in-thailand-bangkok-and-the-beach-mostly-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Days in Thailand: Bangkok and the Beach (Mostly Pictures)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Temple of the Emerald Buddah<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/blockquote>\n

These are pictures from Bangkok’s Temple of the Emerald Buddha<\/a>, where we spent much of Tuesday. \u00a0So much beauty and mystery here. Above is part of the multiple-building temple. \u00a0Below are a couple more scenes. \u00a0It was really really hot and really really crowded\u00a0as\u00a0so many\u00a0people, both the devout and the tourists, gathered to see the painstaking work that created this beautiful place.<\/p>\n

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A small closeup of the beautiful work that covers all these buildings — executed, I learned, by both men AND women.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of a series of panels from the Ramayana that wanders through the Temple complex.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I couldn’t resist this adorable little guy, sitting on a small block outside the building where Thailand holds coronations.<\/p>\n

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Our next day was fun – lounging and picnicking on the beaches of Ko Kut.<\/p>\n

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Our ship, #SeabournSojourn, anchored for our beach excursion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our picnic scene, viewed as we walked from the tender to the shore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I had to include this; you’ll never guess what it is. \u00a0Part of our adventure was\u00a0“Caviar in the Surf” which is just what it sounds like. \u00a0It was really weird – not the event but what it looked like. \u00a0Droves of our fellow passengers moving together from the beach out into the sea to the tables of caviar — kind of spooky looking from the shore but\u00a0a great treat for all.<\/p>\n

We leave in the morning for Angkor Wat. \u00a0More from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are pictures from Bangkok’s Temple of the Emerald Buddha, where we spent much of Tuesday. \u00a0So much beauty and mystery here. Above is part of the multiple-building temple. \u00a0Below are a couple more scenes. \u00a0It was really really hot and really really crowded\u00a0as\u00a0so many\u00a0people, both the devout and the tourists, gathered to see the … Continue reading Two Days in Thailand: Bangkok and the Beach (Mostly Pictures)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,98,78],"tags":[3731,3727,3728,3732,3735,3734,2621,3733,3729],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-religion","category-travel","tag-seabourn-seabourncruise","tag-seabournsojourn","tag-bangkok","tag-emerald-buddha","tag-ko-kut","tag-ramayana","tag-seabourn","tag-temple-of-shadows","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-12L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4037,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}