#Chao Praya

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BANGKOK, CONTRASTES DE PASADO Y PRESENTE EN LA CAPITAL TAILANDESA; Por Rosana Saburo

Más allá de todos los sitios turísticos de Bangkok, desde las vistas panorámicas que ofrecía la Torre MahaNakhon a 314 metros, se dibujaba una gran ciudad, abierta al Golfo de Tailandia, condicionada por el río Chao Phraya, con modernos rascacielos que combinaban con otros espacios más tradicionales, un conjunto caótico y cosmopolita, que invitaba a adentrarse en su ritmo y energía. Además de…

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yyds_ent: Ming! Hang in there!!(🎤Woh…oh…oh..) - [The tumultuous story of the teenagers at a house next to the river 🌊]

not someone singing Lady Gaga's Bad Romance in the background. this production is unserious as hell 😭 i love them (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

update: apparently the singing is by random tourists on a boat passing by the Chao Praya river where Joe's house is located 😭😭😭😭 (source)

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basa please antthing about them i love them

Okay!

Daily fish fact #618

Basa catfish!

It makes its homes in the rapids and flooded plains and forests of Mekong River and Chao Praya River basins in Asia. They can grow quite big, reaching 120 cm (~4 feet).

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Rhyncholaeliocattleya Chao Praya Red 🌺 Is an orchid hybrid between (Rhyncholaeliocattleya Kanueng-Nid × Cattleya Tainan)

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↳ Chapter 5 of WHITE NIGHTS is up!

(Read on ao3)

Somewhere beyond the motel, the Chao Praya flows huge and ocherous, glittering like diamonds in the patches caught in the floodlights; and beyond the river stretches great wastes of concrete buildings and porous oolitic limestone. A tropical entropy always seems to prevail here, defeating grand schemes even as they are realized. It makes Porsche think of his demented, seductive dreams, how they're always suffused with a vortical tension. “What are you waiting for?” he asks, seeming still trapped in the spin. Kinn’s hot black eyes linger on the lights. “For the storm to pass.” A hard crack of thunder fizzles the sky and a wiry bolt of white spreads upward in a star-like formation. Porsche feels it in his bones and tries to stop his shiver. He never did like storms. “You’ll be waiting a long time,” he says without thinking. He doesn’t notice Kinn’s eyes on him until he looks back. “I know,” he says.

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Thailand's Royal Barge Procession 2024

The rehearsal of the annual royal ceremony before the event taking place on 27th of October 2024 along the route of Chao Praya river with uniquely-crafted barges

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A TOURIST IN OLD BANGKOK

I’m in Bangkok again, I have a free Sunday, the sun is brighter than ever, the sky clear and blue, the humidity tolerable for once, so I decide to go visiting three of the most famous attractions of this incredible city: Wat Arun, Wat Pho and the Royal Grand Palace, leaving time for a few diversion along the way. I’ve seen them already, more than once, alone and with friends and family, but one thing I learnt travelling is that, more often than not, the way your mind experiences and remembers a foreign land is affected by your mood, the light, the time of the day, the season you visit, and the same place in the end is always different. “Same-same but different”, Thais say about fake goods mimicking the famous brands that you can buy at the market. And I think it applies to travelers and places too.

Wat Arun, the temple of Dawn

I get there early and I’m almost alone, which is a plus since the steep steps of the central prang (tower) are tricky and I’m grateful to have some space. Did I mention how steep they are? Because they REALLY are, and yet the view over the Royal Palace and the Wat Pho, on the opposite bank of Chao Praya river, deserves the dizzy climb (and descent).

Guarding the entrance are Thotsakan, the green stone giant, and its buddy, the white giant Sahat Decha, both on a prime location to admire fantastic sunrises and sunsets. A large party of Indonesian tourists, who enters the Wat Arun soon after me, all dressed in Thai traditional costumes, stops for some chit chats and a shoot together before I go on to my next destination.

Kudi Chin

Wat Arun is close to the neighbourhood of Kudi Chin where, on a short walk, I visit the Catholic Church of Santa Cruz, the Chinese Taoist temple of Kuang An Keng, the small museum of Baan Kudi Chin and a delicious bakery which specialises in Portuguese desserts made of eggs and sugar. Santa Cruz was built by the Portuguese in this part of Thonburi, on the Western bank of Chao Praya, in 1720 and restored at the beginning of Twentieth Century by Italian architects. The ground that houses the Church had been granted to the Portuguese by King Taksin as a reward for their military support in the wars against the Burmese invaders who had seized the old capital, Ayutthaya.

I’m not particularly interested in churches, especially when in Asia I look for the exotic, but this building is set in a fascinating district of old wood houses, mosques and temples and it talks of a romantic past, when Bangkok was the Venice of the East, a city of 1-floor floating houses, endless fields and narrow alleys that always ended in a klong (a canal).

Wat Pho

While the sun is rising on the horizon, I leave Kudi Chin and cross the Chao Praya River to go visit one of the most ancient temples in the city, Wat Pho, which existed even before Bangkok became the Capital of King Rama’s Kingdom. It houses the largest collection of Buddha images in all Thailand, including the Sleeping Buddha, a 46-metre long, 15-metre high splendid statue that attracts huge crowds of visitors. As you probably guessed, Bangkok is a city of temples, but if you choose to see only a few of them, the two I’m writing about in this article are a must. Wat Pho was the first public university in Thailand and it’s still a school of Thai Traditional Medicine, and the place where Thai massage was born.

If you love massages, this is the place to be: you can receive a treatment (thirty, sixty or ninety minutes) from students who are learning and practicing the traditional Thai massage. The rates are a little higher that what you’d pay in any average massage centre around the city, but here you are guaranteed the hands of professionals. Don’t expect essential oils and a soft touch, though: a strong pressure is applied to the body and the massage is more often painful than pleasant, but the result’s exceptional in the end. I’d love to take a massage today, but my schedule is quite tight, so I go on.

Royal Grand Palace

As the sun rises, the heath becomes challenging for me too, a lowho is at her happiest when the thermometer reaches 35° C, but I keep going until I reach the Royal Grand Palace, the glittering complex of buildings, gardens, halls and pagodas that used to be the Royal Residence of the Kings of Siam since 1782. It’s not their official residence anymore after 1946, when Rama VIII (eldest brother of the beloved King Rama IX who died a few years ago) was found dead in his quarters inside the Grand Palace; nevertheless the complex is still used for official celebrations and State dinners, and it’s beautifully maintained.

Within the Royal compound, one of the most popular – and crowded- attractions is the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. My advice is to avoid it at weekends for a chance to soak up the mystical atmosphere without the noises and annoyances of the crowd.

Today, I stay only a few minutes inside this temple, and spend the rest of my visit wondering around aimlessly among the golden domes, the sharp spires, the mosaics, the Naga snakes and the semi-divine Apsara princesses that embellish this spectacular complex in the hearth of the old city.

A few tips

How to dress for the Grand Palace and Wat Arun? A long sleeved (at least until the elbows), non-transparent shirt, long trousers or skirts (ankles should be covered) and a hat since the sun can be very strong. If your legs and shoulders are not properly covered and you are wearing sandals or open shoes without socks, you’ll be stopped at the entrance and asked to rent a sarong and a stole to cover your shoulders, and the queue for renting these clothes might be long.

At Wat Pho the 100 THB ticket includes a bottle of water. Drink as much as you can, every time you can!

Next to the Sleeping Buddha there are 108 bronze bowls which represent his virtues. For 20 baht you can buy a bag of 1 baht coins and toss them in the bowls, making wishes while you do so. Dropping the coins in makes a nice ringing sound and even if your wishes don’t come true, you are contributing to the temple maintenance.

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I also think that enjoying something without caring about how “good” the results are requires a confidence Kinn has under all the family competition. Kinn likes winning and being right, but he does recognize himself as greater than any individual win or loss.

…Guess who sucks at being bad at a hobby?

…Guess what’s a necessary stage in most hobbies?

So Vegas and his talents for gardening and delicate mechanical work and cooking, yes--but also. Vegas’s first ill-fated attempt at painting.

He thought he could do better than Kinn.

He was incorrect.

He puts the painting in a bag, fills the bag with bricks, and dumps it in the Chao Praya at two in the morning. Pete’s nearby with the motorcycle, smoking and surreptitiously keeping watch and trying very hard not to laugh or over-interpret this.

So my secret dream is that Kinn and Vegas both pick up a ton of non-mafia hobbies down the line.

Now, Kinn is a shit cook. He plucks a trigger much more steadily than he’ll ever pluck Kim’s guitar. His clumsy attempts at painting draw a rare smile to Porsche’s mother’s lips. Kinn knits the lumpiest, most uneven scarf in a climate where nobody will ever want to wear it.

Kinn is bad at his hobbies.

And it is so freeing, to enjoy something and to be bad at it. For Kinn, who has always had to be the best—for Kinn, whose father’s money made him the best even when he wasn’t—what a tremendous relief, to love something and to do it poorly.

Meanwhile—Vegas is an excellent cook. His hands are just as dexterous on the pliers whether he is extracting the movement from a clock or the bones from a man’s ear. His bird’s eye chili plants thrive on the balcony.

Vegas is good at his hobbies.

And it is so satiating, to enjoy something and to be good at it. For Vegas, who has never been the best—for Vegas, whose father’s goalposts moved every time he thought he might be good enough—what a tremendous relief, to love something and to do it well.

Privately (and sometimes not so privately), they laugh at each other. Privately (always privately), they are so much happier.

(And neither of them plays chess. <3)

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Mental Note: When in Thailand beware of ordering a menu item with ‘spicy’ in the title.

We made it to Wat Pho through intense heat and sun. We were very lucky to be able to witness the monks chanting while holding a string - appeared to be the lead up to a wedding ceremony at the temple. We ate dinner alongside the Chao Praya and made the rookie tourist mistake of ordering soup with ‘spicy’ actually in the title. Even ordering it ‘medium’ required much water and tears. I learned that the best views from our hotel were from the laundry machine on the top floor.

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