Banyan Tree Spirit

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Banyan Tree, Buddha, Phimai Wat, Thailand

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Ganesh

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Ganesh, ganesha, Thailand

Northern Thailand is predominantly Buddhist and opportunities to worship and leave offerings for the deities are everywhere. Even the birds participated.

Phra Pathom Chedi

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Chinese figures, Nakhon Pathom, Phra Pathom Chedi, stupa, Thailand

Phra Pathom Chedi, or “the first Stupa” is located about 50km outside of Bangkok in Nakhon Pathom. It is the tallest Stupa in the world, dating back to the 4th century. Learn the colorful history of this Buddhist site here.

These charismatic statues are among several that encircle the Stupa at its base.

 

Modern Monk

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Buddhism, Monk, Thailand

There’s more to life than birds…

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Korat Zoo, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, White-handed Gibbon

This White-handed Gibbon contemplates the day.

Offerings ~ Wat Phnom

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alter, Cambodia, lotus, Wat Phnom

Wat Phnom

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Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Wat Phnom

Spirit Dog

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dog, Phnom Penh, Spirit House

This pooch settled in at the base of a Spirit House outside the temple in Phnom Penh and looks suspiciously like the dog from my New Delhi post Sleeping Dog. Will Dog appear in Thailand?

 

A brief encounter

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Cambodia, long-tailed macaque, Phnom Penh, southeast Asia, temple

I recently visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a conservation workshop on saving the Eastern Sarus Cranes and the wetlands they need to survive in southeast Asia. One evening our group visited a temple near the hotel and we met this little female long-tailed macaque. She and her sister were digging into the fruit found inside lotus flowers, originally brought to the temple as offerings.

Traffic Flow

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Delhi, population, students, traffic jam

The previous photo of the “school bus” on the streets of Delhi is the anomaly. This is what the traffic is really like, especially on the streets of Old Delhi, a walled city within a city. The 2016 census estimates a population of 18.6 million people, which has risen by nearly a million in just two short years. Perhaps you can see the concentration necessary to navigate such a scene in the eyes of my friend – a resident of India’s capital. He prefers to drive out of the city whenever possible.