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Natural wonders - tree trunk which has grown wrapped around a Buddha face relic, Ayuthaya, Northern Thailand

Date: 26 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Saffron nights...

Buddha relic, Ayuthaya ruins, north Thailand

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Some local Thai culinary street delights...

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Riding on the northbound Thai train system...open windowed and wooden decor, we caught this train on a Monday - which, for the 60th anniversary of the King's rule, requires Thais to wear yellow (if you dont wear a yellow piece of clothing you can compensate by buying a yellow armband as we did from the local Starmart!

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Polite Thai Society and PDA Rules of Etiquette

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Mini temple in the gardens of the Thai Royal Palace

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Artist working on the Thailand Royal Palace Wall Murals

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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About to be bayoneted in the military coup

Will and I standing outside the royal palace...oblivious to the fact that the soldier wasnt a tourist attraction but a military man posted to guard the palace for the coup! Hehe, happy vague snaps with the bayonet uncomfortably close to piercing my midsection..he didnt seem too displeased at his tourist attraction status though

Date: 24 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Thailand: gallery
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Early risers! 5am kids at Wat Moha Montrei, Pchum Benh Festival, Phnom Penh

Offerings have to be made between 4am and 6am in the 15 days leading up to Pchum Benh (Sept 22) Why? Because the ancestral spirits don't like the light...and because the monks have to stop praying for you and eat at 6am!

Date: 18 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Cambodia: gallery
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Girl shows her lolly scoop in the Pchum Benh festival, Wat Moha Montrei, Phnom Penh

Date: 18 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Cambodia: gallery
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Cute poan srey and tom (boys and girls), Wat Moha Montrei,for the Pchum Benh Festival, Phnom Penh Cambodia

Date: 18 September 2006
Photographer: diabolical: gallery
Location: Cambodia: gallery
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A lesson in ancestral offerings..Pchum Benh, Cambodia

Kids rallying around me at 5am, Wat Moha Montrei, as they teach me on how to be a good gift offerer (walk clockwise around the wat, throw my sticky rice at the ancestor's stupas, give my incense to them and then the lollies to the kids...!)Pchum Benh is Cambodia's Festival of the Dead: 15 days when the ancestor spirits are released from heaven to come down to wats on earth and try and find food and offerings from their lived ones...a good Khmer will visit at least 7 wats to increase chances of their ancestors finding their offerings (esp sticky rice!) and granting them good luck for the rest of the year