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| This garden was just outside this building. Below you can get some perspective on the size of the buildings as there are a couple of buildings being built or repaired. Those aren't tiny men working on the roof there, that is one massive roof. In the next picture you can see the tiles that they would use for the roof. |
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| As you can see above on the left, at the Royal Palace they often decorate the peaks of roofs with murals of colored mirrors which are quite impressive in the light. The picture on the right and here is from a more typical Thai Buddhist temple with white plaster and gold leaf decorations. Below on the left is a really massive set of doors that would be about thirty feet tall and six feet across. It is hard to imagine who you would even open such large doors (presumably they are hung very well, but that must be a really challenging operation). They are also decorated in incredible detail with mother of pearl which is black lacquer with polished abolone shells embedded in the lacquer. This was a quite common type of decoration but we never saw such massive and detailed mother of pearl. The other slide below is of the same building but the windows which are decorated in the same fashion with the same incredible detail. |
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| This picture is from the same building and is a close up of the base of one of the pillars. Every part of the temple/shrine is decorated with such care and detail. The sides of the pillar are murals; this one seems to be ceramic tiles rather than colored mirrors. The edges are decorated with jewels imbedded in plaster and gold leaf. On the interior of the temple there was often stained glass done with very good effect as you can see below on the left. Further inside would be a statue of Buddha as below on the right, this one is not so large on a high raised platform with many flowers around the base. |
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