When I approach a taxi or tuk tuk and they ask "Where?" I say Wat (Temple) Na Pra Mien and they know where to go. My house is across the street. It's a temple of some note so tour buses regularly stop.
This afternoon I made a visit back to the temple as a huge tour bus full of Thai drove in. The temple yard is shaded by huge Banyan tree shrouded with saffron colored cloth. As the bus unloaded the passengers an elderly nun swathed in her white robe picked up her bull horn and gave instructions? welcome?
The visitors first went to a covered area in the yard where if it were a Catholic Church we say that there were side altars. They knelt, prayed, lit joss sticks, placed flowers (Jasmine) and several struck the gong...each three strikes. Then they took a tour of the temples...actually there are two, the oldest one from 1700s.
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