On the first "Daily Pic" a few days ago, I said that I wouldn't be posting any tourist pics. Well, that promise isn't even going to last a week. Why is that? Piyawat has two friends from Spain visiting this weekend, so they gave us an excuse to play tourist last night.
Before dinner, Piyawat, Pepe, Jorge and I walked around down town, as we showed off Bangkok's temples of consumerism: Emporium, Gaysorn, Erawan, Central World Plaza, and Siam Center. We also stopped at the Erawan shrine, for a tourist photo op.
At the shrine you can pay a donation for the Thai dancers (shown here on the left) and the traditional Thai musicians (not in the picture). The way I understand it, is that the music and dancing entertains the spirit of the shrine and the requests from the supplicants are therefore more likely to be heard.
The picture on the right is of Jorge, me, and Pepe (L to R) in front of the Erawan Shrine, which itself is in front of the new super-high-end Erawan Shopping Mall, which is connected to the Erawan Grand Hyatt.
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(Both pics taken by Piyawat on 27 Aug 2005 around 6:50 PM)
