Bangkok's Chinatown
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This
is in Chinatown, but many streets in old Bangkok are packed and crammed
and jammed like this.
Looks
charming, but it's not so great when you hear all the noise and get a
whif of the heavy polution. The reason I took the photo below, in fact,
is that I wondered at how people can live in such quarters, but the photo
doesn't really give that cramped feeling. (Photos by Holstein.)
The
Buddha of prosperity, Buddha of our lower instincts. Buddha's equivalent
of Christianity's Prosperity Gospel.
The
River View Guest House, in the heart of Chinatown.
This
isn't Chinatown, but it is a Chinese cemetery.
The
Chinese temple right in front of the River View Guest House
A
peek inside
Closer
to the stage
Across
the Chao Phaya from the River View Guest House
The
same temple as above, taken from the 7th floor of the River View Guest
House
Buddha's
face with gold leaf, on the sawed-off limb of a tree on the compound of
the temple above. It's about 30 cm in diameter.
The
decrepitude in the old Chinatown is fascinating, mesmerizing.
