{"id":12053,"date":"2024-03-11T23:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T10:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:29:07","slug":"thailand-day-11-big-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2024\/03\/thailand-day-11-big-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Day 11 – Big Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today I go to Big Buddha again<\/a>, it’s a nice ride on the scooter and it keeps you cool (the driving). No idea who the gentleman in the photo is but it’s definitely not Big Buddha<\/p><\/div>\n

This<\/strong> is Big<\/a> Buddha<\/a>!<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of golden (well, not real I presume) statues here of Buddha knows who<\/p><\/div>\n

Long snakes guarding the steps towards Buddha<\/p><\/div>\n

There is the odd lovely breeze up here, that’s sooo nice<\/p><\/div>\n

Does a human have 32 organs? I don’t know, I’m not a doctor<\/p><\/div>\n

7 minutes happy meditation<\/p><\/div>\n

Extremely happy<\/p><\/div>\n

Tourists getting blessed by a monk is what I think is happening here<\/p><\/div>\n

Head meets tail<\/p><\/div>\n

Jolly old chap mister Buddha<\/p><\/div>\n

Chalong in the distance<\/p><\/div>\n

Chalong Pier, this is where the boats for all the diving around Phuket leave from<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of elephant heads<\/p><\/div>\n

And snakes<\/p><\/div>\n

Dragon, or is it 2 dragons? Siamese dragons perhaps? And which one decides what direction to walk in? So many questions<\/p><\/div>\n

Not sure if it’s visivle in the photo but this Buddha has a black nose, the Thai touch his nose (for good luck?) and over time it has rubbed off the gold paint<\/p><\/div>\n

More statues, more every year it seems<\/p><\/div>\n

I don’t know if there’s any religious significance to it but mister Big is facing due east<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey! There are monkeys running around here!<\/p><\/div>\n

Ah, they’re cute!<\/p><\/div>\n

Or at least they look<\/strong> cute, as you have to really guard your belongings or they will steal everything from you given the chance, which almost happened to this lady, luckily the staff here is constantly scaring and chasing the monkeys away<\/p><\/div>\n

Which is a shame as they are so great for a photo<\/p><\/div>\n

And they monkeys have been living here forever (I guess)<\/p><\/div>\n

Everywhere in the forest below us there are monkeys in the trees<\/p><\/div>\n

Jumping big distances from tree to tree<\/p><\/div>\n

Buddha has been watching too much Steve Irwin<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s already stupidly hot for me, imagine what it must feel like wearing a fur coat like Madame Puss here<\/p><\/div>\n

Anyway, that was Big Buddha again. I haven’t had pizza so this evening I had a yummy pizza. Pizza is still kind of a novelty here so they are pretty expensive and mostly something for tourists<\/p><\/div>\n