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=0=| From the top of the tower you also got a very good view of Bangkok. In the foreground here is the Royal palace which we visited later. Below are pictures of Wat Poh which means Temple Poh. It had many shrines and pagodas and covered five acres or so. Some of the sections were not in very good repair while others were in better condition. On the left below is one of the statues that you would see as you went through one of the entrance gates. It would be about 12 feet tall. On the right is the same gateway but from further away. The statues are particularly ferocious looking to scare away evil spirits we presumed. |
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| The shrines and temples in Thailand really impressed us because of the really detailed decorations and bright colored tiles that they used. It reminded us of ginggerbread decorations. Below on the left is another gateway with Barbara standing by one of the She She dogs. Also below is a bell in its own little tower. |
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| Above are a couple of pictures of a really impressive shrine. Instead of ordinary colored tile roofs, their tile is glazed ceramic tiles. As you can see here they had some really huge doors and lots of gold leaf decorations. |
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| Above on the left are some doors and She She dogs that impressed us. On the right there are couple of lesser pagodas that struck us. There so many impressive structures. Here is a scale model of Wat Poh. Wat Poh is the largest temple in Thailand and was really huge. |
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