Interesting Thailand

Hello! Surprised and delighted attention to my first photo galleries, I decided not to stop and submit to your court one more. Here, every picture I gave a short text. As for the word "interesting" in the title of the album - your comments will show whether I am right or not)))
There will be 64 pictures, according to tradition, please do not break.
01 Thailand - Buddhist country. And yet very elegant. Such a large number of golden Buddhas can not be found anywhere else.





02 Bangkok deserves no cursory tour, but at least a few days exploring. Not to be sprayed, here are just a few pictures. The city is very beautiful as the day ...



03 ... and night. Incidentally, the name of the capital Bangkok - for foreigners. Thai name "Krung Thep Maha Nakhon ... etc. Etc." - only about 20 unpronounceable words koi translated as "City of Angels, the great city, the city of eternal stones chosen by the city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world, framed by nine gems, the city happiness, a repository of extraordinary royal palace, like the heavenly courts, where the reigning gods, the city built by the assent of Vishnu Indra. " Thais usually shortened to "Kroon Thep."



04 Statues depicting farang, farang living in an environment. Goggle-eyed, big hats - such Thais are currently visiting white people. Word "farang" can be heard quite often, but it bears no offensive meaning, rather humorous.



05 Thai people are very friendly and smiling people. Although what is there to be surprised - they do not remember the war, do not know the winter, food grows on trees and practically underfoot.



06 Truly - "land of a thousand smiles»



07 Orange or brown clothes Buddhist monks can be seen from afar. This is a very respected and revered citizens. Not counting the monks residing in monasteries, every man for life at least once at the time of becoming a monk, usually in adolescence. The date - somewhere for a month or two, then "rasstrigaetsya" back to the laity. Such is the "summer camp" in the Buddhist style.



08 River tram on the Chao Praya River in Bangkok. The price of travel - just ridiculous. The best way to see the sights from the water. Please note - the front, in the best locations, the monks sit.



09 most popular urban transport - "Knock, knock." As elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Produced mainly in India. There are even modifications of freight (and even Europe)



10 If you got up first at the traffic light, then very soon you find yourself not the first and not the second, and it is good if the tenth. Bicycles in Bangkok, there is little, but a huge number of scooters. Rain "scooter" and "skuteristok 'does not stop - jacket worn backward - and forward!



11 Metro in Bangkok ultramodern, has elevated and underground branches, belonging to different companies. The cars - cold dog, after the heat is easy to catch a cold.



12 queues for landing in cars))) is a picture of us?



Note 13 - "eating people with children, the disabled and the frail aged people"? In Thailand, the monks here in the first place)))



14 So basically turistov- ride with the wind!



15 of these houses on the canals - very many people live in them. All communication - on boats.



16 channels, and indeed the river Chao Phraya floating algae covered a little less than full. If they are not clean, will the Sargasso Sea.



17 Feeding fish - my favorite entertainment. You can buy fish food (as in the photo), or sliced ​​bread from the special Thai people on the pier. Better bread, it can be swung to slap on the water - the effect is stronger. It begins storm. Fish - each with half a meter in length - devour the prey, and fighting among themselves. In appearance - a catfish live in all water bodies.



18 Brew "fish porridge," says one Mitya. Fishermen reason very little, maybe with so many fish just is not interesting?



Floating 19 "restaurant." Very convenient for those living in shacks on the channels.



Another 20. Incidentally, I note that virtually no Thai cook and do not eat at home, decided to eat in the street establishments, for conversation and socializing.



21Vsya food is very spicy, well, this is so everyone knows. Here - Mitya hvatanuvshy something beyond. "He cried".



22 And this is - I'm in a similar situation. While in Thailand, be sure to order the soup Tom Yam. This business card Thai cuisine and really delicious thing. But go not to the restaurant for a farang, and in the establishment where the Thais eat. There will be a real taste. The magic word in the order - "know spicy", or burning up inside. Although we like and say ...



23 Visit the fish market, is mandatory. As the tour. See and smell))) That's all sorts of goodies for beer that we have sold in bags of 20 grams, there are baskets.



24 By the way, the prices are per kilogram. The cost of the baht to date is the ruble. Very democratic!



25Ulitsa Bamrung Muyng in Bangkok. There are many shops selling religious objects and monastic utensils - Buddha statues, incense, Monash clothes, umbrellas, kits and other offerings. All in one orange-brown color.



26 Here, we bought a small "Patria" - a pot for begging as a gift to our friend Vova, is going to become a Buddhist monk. Each has Patras Case with shoulder strap and straw stand. Stalls Buddhist utensils are somehow coexist with shops police equipment.



27 And the police in Thailand - feast for the eyes. Police have prestigious and cool. Rather, the form is sewn to order, and therefore sits like a glove. Aiguillettes, sunglasses, belts, badges and icons - in full, to the envy of our Dembele. A gun - a source of pride than it is, the better. Guns are different, always in an open holster, there are even a hefty nickel-plated revolver. The state gives the police to purchase a certain amount of weapons, but everyone is free to add and buy the barrel of your choice!



28 The police did not hesitate to ride a scooter and photographed with farang. Like all the inhabitants of the country, they are friendly and smiling!



29 Musical trishaw - for the most frostbitten farang. Strangely, here I caught it without riders and deafening music.



30 We are at the station, we are going to go to southern Thailand. A lot of free seats, but are uncomfortable to lie on, and the floor is warm and clean. Waiting for the train Thais quietly resting on the floor, it is in order. Also, the order of the late train - for an hour or two - easily.



31 Here we are in the town of Phatthalung (Phatthalung), there will be a rite of passage in our other monks. Our train on a background of mountains characteristic shape - a symbol of the city.



32 The monastery is located in the countryside. On the way, it comes across grazing cattle. Each cow is attached Egret - for eating parasites. They never go - pairs.



33 And here is the monastery Bansuan so looks its territory. Frankly, imagination drew something in the spirit of the Shao-Lin)))



34 Eagle soars in the sky ...



35 And here is our friend Vova, who tomorrow will be a Buddhist monk. He and another Russian guy lived here for a month and get ready for the ceremony.



36 Morning. Candidates for the monks shaved heads, including eyebrows (hair and eyebrows are the adornment of the person, the monks do not need it). Dressed in funny costumes, symbolizing the Buddha's robes - before he attained enlightenment. The spiritual mentor puts crowns on their heads.



37 In the future, all the stages of the ceremony is a ritual, and initiates a dialogue between the instructor and the reading of sacred texts in a singsong voice, while the initiate takes vows and incurs monastic obligations.



38 solemn procession around the church. In the hands of the candidates - lotus buds. Running them people are offering. As a rule, it is ready sets - plastic bucket in which packages of tea, rice and soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, razor, water filter and other households. fines. All wrapped in an orange film.



39 beginning of the ceremony in the temple. Many of the public, including students from Phatthalung and local TV with an amateur camera (in the picture is not horrible). Not often farang haircuts a monk!



40 During the ceremony, the monks handed clothing, consisting of three "sheets" of different sizes. One of them - the skirt - "antaravasaka", the other - cape, leaves open the right shoulder - "uttarasanga", and the third - the upper cape - "sangati." Collectively called "Chiwara".



41 Here, the monks dressed. There are several ways draperies, here you see the most solemn when the upper cape thrown over his shoulder and beautifully laid on the belt.



42 The ceremony continues. In the hands of a spiritual guide is not a tennis racket, and "talapat" - a ritual fan used as a screen to the listener focused not on the face of the speaker, but in the sense of what was said.



43 The first ritual alms to a monk - is also part of the ceremony. Monk certainly holds its two hands Patras (pot) and laity impose it - of course, rice and even some food.



44 The final stage - shedding dedicated lotus petals.



45 Photographing newly monks with the abbot on the background of a Buddha statue. Everything is now our friend is not Vova and Bhikkhu (monk) Pannyavaro.



46 Thais passion for the collective photo. Now, with the most valuable guests, including representatives of local authorities and farang, a visiting and local.



47 second (and last) day meal monks. Now our friend has the right to sit with the other monks on the hill. Eat only what serves the laity. But this is not charity! Buddhists who takes the monk, improve their karma and gets merit.



48 Thus, any eating monk - a ritual. Well, the monks ate, you can now lay people. In almost every Buddhist ceremony accompanied by a collective meal)))



49 And God sent them ... It's very tasty, but very serious. Pay attention to the traditional form of Thai Spoon.



50 Monk can not even touch a woman. Therefore, if you need to take an offering, using spread out the handkerchief, which holds a monk, a woman puts him their offerings. Or skirt, as in the photo.



51 And these males also live in the monastery. I insert them here, because it was too beautiful.



52 small tower at the monastery - in fact the family graves, in which there is stored the ashes after burning the bodies.



53 And this is - a crematorium at the church, he is acting in spite of grazing cows.



54 This photo was taken later when the crematorium was closed for repairs. Temporarily was replaced here is a portable kerosene grill. Photo - Reverend Pannyavaro, a comment of his own)))



55 Enough about the sad, then a few pictures from the life of the provincial town of Phatthalung.



As a 56 yard Beads and Tuzikov here - the monkey.



57 Monkey baby is placed in the roots of a huge tree and eats a cucumber.



58 From any point of the city is visible to the typical mountain. It is high enough. The fact that it appears with moss, in fact - the trees.



59B has a through-hole mount. I want to say a hole, but somehow does not sound.



60 After 18.00, when it gets dark, the taxi is not running. But there is a moto-taxi! Unusually, comic and read not terrible. By the way, the same is also in Bangkok, is a good option to bypass traffic jams, but the eye is better not to open.)))



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