Buddhas and Street Food

Today was super-uber normal touristy.  We went to see two of the most famous Buddhist wats (temples) here in Bangkok - Wat Arun (Temple of the Dawn) and Wat Po - Bangkok's first "university" and home of the most famous school of Thai massage in the country.

Wat Arun is home to the largest Reclining Buddha - some 49 meters long

Front side of Reclining Buddha - don't know the blue shirt guy

Back of the 49 meter long reclining Buddha

Bottoms of the feet - made of Mother of Pearl

From there we saw the other Buddha image - the Golden Buddha.  I don't understand why they are so adamant about NOT taking pictures of SOME of the images and so "could care less" about others... So we took pictures.

Golden sitting Buddha

Entrance guarded by giants

Giant guardian - pretty cool looking!

There's actually a boatload more, but I'll spare you for now. 

For some reason the heat and humidity sucked the energy out of me today and we headed back to the hotel about 3.  We used the river taxis (public boats that hold 100 people or so - costs about a $1.50 for both of us to ride.  We got off at the stop that is the end of the Skytrain line, hopped on the Skytrain and took it two stops to our hotel.  That costs about another $1.50 or so.  So for between $3.00 and $3.50 we hopped all around Bangkok.  World travelers, we!! :-)

The best part, though, was finally getting the courage to eat street food.  Tonight was our "street food" dinner night. You have to understand (and I will get some pics) there are food vendors EVERYWHERE selling EVERYTHING you can imagine and some you can't and some you don't want to!  But right near our hotel there is some pretty yummy stuff.  So we first picked up a bag of fresh corn OFF the cob (he cooks it right there, then cuts it off the cob and sells it by the bag).  That cost 10 Baht (30 cents) and there is enough for both of us.  Then Derrick went across the street and found chicken (at least we think that is what it was), sticky rice and hot sauce for 30 Baht (90 cents) and finally what looked (and tasted) like little hot dogs on a skewer for 5 Baht (15 cents).  So do the math and our street dinner cost under $1.50.  Now, we added some cucumber and carrots from the store that we had already and that made it a bit more, but you get the gist.  It was fun and very yummy!