Or; The White Temple.
After Bangkok me and Valle went to Chiang Rai. One of the first things on my list there was to visit the White Temple, which my dad had recommended. While waiting for the bus we found a little Chinese group that were also going there, so we all decided to split a tuktuk. When we got there the driver asked us what time we wanted to be picked up for our return, and we asked to stay until after sunset to see the pretty temple in the night. When do the sun go down? The answer was around 5,30.
We went inside and looked at the temple which is indeed gorgeous. It is completely white and filled with little mirrors that twinkle in the sunlight. Sadly we were not allowed to take any pictures inside the temple, which was also a very interesting sight. Inside were wall paintings of all kinds of cartoons, animation figures etc. There were super mans, batman's and spider mans. Transformers and angry birds. All you can imagine - apparently in an attempt to lure a younger generation to visit the temple. What a sight!
Outside the temple there were a lot of constructions being done, and it was beautiful to see all the hard concrete next to the white temple and the golden buildings next to it. We wrote blessings on little silver leaves and left them among a gazillion others hanging around the place. Beautiful!
Afterwards we stuck around to see the "light show" that we had heard about. After dark they were going to turn on lights that would make the temple twinkle even more in front of the night sky. And so we waited. And waited. At 5,30 when our driver returned the sun had still not set. It didn't do so until after 7. And then we waited again. Until we finally realised that there was not going to be any lights switching on, because they had started only doing it on public holidays. Bummer.
And now (about 2 months later) I got the sad news that the temple has been closed due to damage caused by a recent earthquake. Im so sad about this news, and so happy that I had a chance to see it.
After Bangkok me and Valle went to Chiang Rai. One of the first things on my list there was to visit the White Temple, which my dad had recommended. While waiting for the bus we found a little Chinese group that were also going there, so we all decided to split a tuktuk. When we got there the driver asked us what time we wanted to be picked up for our return, and we asked to stay until after sunset to see the pretty temple in the night. When do the sun go down? The answer was around 5,30.
We went inside and looked at the temple which is indeed gorgeous. It is completely white and filled with little mirrors that twinkle in the sunlight. Sadly we were not allowed to take any pictures inside the temple, which was also a very interesting sight. Inside were wall paintings of all kinds of cartoons, animation figures etc. There were super mans, batman's and spider mans. Transformers and angry birds. All you can imagine - apparently in an attempt to lure a younger generation to visit the temple. What a sight!
Outside the temple there were a lot of constructions being done, and it was beautiful to see all the hard concrete next to the white temple and the golden buildings next to it. We wrote blessings on little silver leaves and left them among a gazillion others hanging around the place. Beautiful!
Afterwards we stuck around to see the "light show" that we had heard about. After dark they were going to turn on lights that would make the temple twinkle even more in front of the night sky. And so we waited. And waited. At 5,30 when our driver returned the sun had still not set. It didn't do so until after 7. And then we waited again. Until we finally realised that there was not going to be any lights switching on, because they had started only doing it on public holidays. Bummer.
And now (about 2 months later) I got the sad news that the temple has been closed due to damage caused by a recent earthquake. Im so sad about this news, and so happy that I had a chance to see it.
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