Buddhism

One of the positives of the Songkran holidays is that the roads in Bangkok are free of traffic jams because most people leave the city to visit family in rural areas. I am certainly not complaining, but as it’s a holiday, I’m also taking the day off as the designated chauffeur! We first make our way out to Wat Wat …

We start today’s adventure visiting the Wat Tam Mai temple to look for a gift for our friend Min. Chanya also wanted to make merit for good luck as well as this is a tradition under Buddhist philosophy. Alas, she didn’t find the perfect gift there, so we stop off at a small shop on the way to Min’s new …

We wake up on New Years day to a foggy 20 degrees Celsius and take a stroll down to Mon Bridge

Today is Mothers birthday so we put the weekly grind on hold and take a short trip west to Wat Tha Mai. We’ve visited this temple a few times before, but this time it isn’t a weekend or a special religious holiday so there wasn’t a big crowd. Out of all the Temples within a short drive from our house, …

It’s that special time of year where the Thai’s celebrate and pay respect to the goddess of water after the rainy season. Loi Krathong takes place on the evening of the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar, so the exact date of the festival changes every year. The name could be translated as “to …