Bangkok -Temples and then tigers with temples

The Giant Reclining Buddha in/ at Wat Pho. It was Giant and Reclining... but it wasn't all gold. There were huge black painted patches.

We took a river bus to look at all the temples because it's literally the coolest option. The next one and probably our favourite was Wat Arun, Temple of Dawn, it wasn't as bling and glitzy as the others, but was covered in tiles ... and a mix of hindu and buddhist imagery.... and possibly the steepest steps known to mankind

The next day we had organised a tour of Kanachuburi, where the bridge over the river Kwai is. We went to the WW2 cemetery and the war museum. The cemetery was really quite heartbreaking seeing that a lot of the soldiers were our age now. But we must have looked doubly upset and grief stricken by it as both of us had conjunctivitis and were constantly dabbing our eyes with tissues, the other guys on out tour thought we were really touched by it.

We went on a train as well... puffing billy is better.

But the real reason we went on the tour was to see the tigers at the tiger temple.

Before you go in, you sign a waiver to your life.

And then you go in.. and get to pat tigers.

Now the brochure says the reason they are so docile is because they are hand reared and its the middle of the day and they are sleepy.... but its a tiger. We were a bit skeptical, but then they're monks running the place so you don't want to think badly of them. But we got to touch REAL LIFE TIGERS. And play with baby tiger cubs.

There were also cows and pigs and peacocks running around the farm too.

But now due to my woeful computer skills I have manged to loose the pictures of us and sleepy tigers, and Jon took computer cable when he went to get a beer... so I might join him for a Chang and then drag him back so you can see for yourself.