This Wat is located in the ancient city of Nakhon Chaisi and was built by a young prince as an appeasement to Buddha for killing his father.
The Wat tower:
Ornate temple windows:
While walking around the structure, I came across a long row of toy ducks. In Thailand, at many shrines, you will often see many small, toy animals left as an offering. I usually see elephants or zebras, but this was my first time to see ducks. They were so cute, I just had to take a picture:
Oh! Oh! Oh! I have a good joke! Looking at the last picture, of the yellow duck facing the camera, he says:
ReplyDelete"Sa-wat-dii quack"? ^_^
**NOTE: sawatdii = How are you? in Thai. At the end of a sentence, we must add "krap"(if a man is speaking), or "Ka"(ladies), but ducks? I think they would use "quack". This phrase ending is just to make the sentence/question polite.
Ducks in Thailand...so polite!