Thailand Part 1 Traveling Thailand with Pam & Ed Waite – Jan. 2011 Photos by Ed Waite

Raking salt from the sea

LP gas, just 2 clicks ahead!

Our guide Louis about to demonstrate the making of coconut sugar.

The travelers, first day, first boat ride!

Entering the “Floating Market of Thailand”

Tourists visiting the “Floating Market”

Preparing meals for those along the canal

A very crowded market selling everything from soup to nuts, literally!

From a bridge overlooking the market

Death Railway Museum near the River Kwai bridge

POW Cemetery near Kwai Bridge

One of 60,000 who gave their lives building the railway

Me by the Kwai River Bridge

Pam & I on the opposite side of the bridge

Moving on to our first Temple visit

A solid gold 5.5 ton Buddha

Our 2nd Temple, The Reclining Buddha, over 155 feet long

Ever more Temples

Pagodas everywhere!

Another beautiful Buddha

Our chief trying to gather his tribe so we can move on!

Thai school children also visiting today!

Pam by a temple guard

Posing with another temple guardian

Taking a break: Pam, Debbie, Elsa, Suzanne, Kathy & Nataliya

Guardian of the Royal Palace

Preparing to change the guards.

Lael & Kathy

Another boat ride through Bangkok Pam, Debbie & John - our third boat ride.

A fruit lunch on this beautiful boat

This one is called “The Hidden Buddha”

These Buddhas were beheaded during a war with Burma several centuries ago.

Pam at another temple we visited

The Emerald Temple

Pam at another temple we visited A huge ornate Buddhist Temple

One pair of the very intricate doors on this temple.

A pair of ornate doors to this Temple Water buffalo grazing along the highway so we stopped!

The Black Buddha

Pam ready for a rickshaw ride to the night market

Kathy on her Rickshaw just in front of me.

Kathy on her Rickshaw or Pedicab Eating what? Fried grasshoppers & Bamboo worms!

Kathy & her driver

Our trolley driver

Inside the moat is another Temple.

Local vendors loading up to follow our trolley to the next stop

This Buddha was about 30 feet tall.

Pam at the Elephant Temple

Narasimha & Nirmala at the Elephant Temple.

A beautiful but weather worn very large Buddha.

Celebrating our 47th Anniversary while in Thailand

Dusit Island Resort, Chiang Rai, Thailand

Riding the Long Tail Boats on the Mong River Ed, Shauna & Pam

Shauna & Ron on Longtail boat.

Riding a Longtail; John & Carter, Shelly & John, Sharlene & Dewey.

A Long Tail Boat with our group passing us.

Ladies working from their home, weaving and knitting.

A native woman in traditional costume

A native house in this village along the river

Pam wearing mask to shield against dust as we ride into the mountains in the back of pickup trucks

Future brooms drying on racks

Visiting a hill tribe village

A hilltribe lady lets us visit inside her home.

Village women prepare to do a dance for us.

A native child shares her reading skills

Pam with a native street vendor and her baby.

Native offers her goods to Pam & Nataliya.

Another villager offers her goods to Pam & Nirmala.

Lea, The driver of our transport

This huge Buddha is along the river border with Laos.

Wat Rong Khun Temple, the work of Chalermchai Kositpipat Doris T.

Wat Rong Khun Temple; Chiang Rai, Thailand

Wat Rong Khun Temple; Chiang Rai, Thailand

Pam at the White Temple, Wat Rong Khun.

The evils of whiskey & drinking!

Smokers forbidden entrance to Wat Rong Khun.

Sinners rejected!

As our guide would say, the “Happy Room” (restrooms)

Debbie H; Chalermchai Kositpipat & Pam at Wat Rong Khun

A temple guardian at Wat Rong Khun Temple

Hands reaching up from Hell to grasp the sinners!

A beautiful artwork at Wat Rong Khun.

Rice paddy being prepared for planting at this nursery

Cabbages & Condoms Resort & restaurant

A curious sign indicating…

The sign says it all!

At the silk works, this lady is weaving a silk piece.

The Umbrella store and factory in Chiang Mai.

Our busboy, Phuc and Pam W. End part 1