These squirrels are highly successful urban dwellers.
If you are walking around in Bangkok, and you look up [dangerous behaviour, as the footpaths are strewn with ankle-breaking opportunities], it is quite likely you will see one of these critters bounding along a power line or munching on flower buds.
These squirrels are highly successful urban dwellers.
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The main Buddha icon, and one of the most important such objects in all of Thailand, is this one at Bangkok's Wat Trimitr [also spelled Traimit] at the edge of Chinatown.
It is made of 5.5 tons of pure gold, and is believed to be about 700 years old. Its a Seated Buddha, but is still about 5 metres tall. It is highly polished. This completely unique noodle bar operates each weekend in the grounds of Bangkok's important Wat Trimitr...a temple that is best known for housing the gorgeous Buddha icon that is molded from 5.5 tons of pure gold.
Customers [about 8 at a time] squat on low stools at a low bench...they are provided with a bowl containing chicken soup and including a boiled chicken foot...two cooks, armed with unusual steamers, prepare stuffed rice-flour dumplings which they cook and immediately dump into the soup as it is being consumed. An interesting experience... A small soi of Thanon Param3, terminating at the river near the floating dry-dock.
In my opinion, The Place for a Fashion Shoot...a cat walk on wooden pallets, to keep dress hems clear of the oil sludge from dismantled gear-boxes and differentials... In the Chao Phraya river, at the park under the Rama9 bridge opposite the KBank obelisk, there is a sea of several thousand large logs...I have been told these are seized teakwood logs, from the illegal timber trade, and the authorities are having difficulties deciding what to do with them.
With half a dozen of these I could probably have a quite decent teakwood home...just saying... |
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