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Packing: after hauling way too many clothes around Europe, for Thailand I packed light. Which worked out fine until I ran out of clothes and had to wear people's souveniers while my laundry was done.
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for entertainment (The hairdryer didn't go, and this was the last unsmashed day in the lives of those poor balance bars.)
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Leslie, in the Tokyo airport, with what appeared to be plastic food.
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Catie outside our hotel on the first day (in front of Poo River I)
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With the whole day before we met our tour group, we decided to wander blindly around Bangkok. Pictured here: a sign in Thai, a tuktuk with waving driver, some big white building that looked significant.
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Catie, some vendors
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Building under construction with bamboo scaffolding
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Monks, apparently preparing for some ceremony, and a big smokey fire
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at the feet of the Buddha
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looking up at the Buddha (back when a giant gold Buddha was still a novelty)
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Can you spot the monk on a cell phone?
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Leslie in temple doorway
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inside
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looking out
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a different Buddha
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a stupa?
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a cool tree-in-a-pot
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a gate
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another stupa
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candles in front of (who else) the Buddha
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temple, exterior
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roof detail
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heading up the Golden Mount
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bells
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view of Bangkok from the top
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again, with Thai and Buddhist flags