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<\/a>Dawn, Chiang Mai streets<\/p><\/div>\n
Maybe because there\u2019s too many temples in Chiang Mai, And about donations. It seemed that any temple in Chiang Mai with modest size had got the special skill that can categorize donations into every possible petty type, like water\/electricity bills, temple building maintenance, food\/education\/health care for the monks, etc. Maybe, I guess it\u2019s because local tradition to exchange large notes into small coins and throw them one by one into different bowls. Wat Chai Si Phum against morning sun<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Saen Fang<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Saen Fang<\/p><\/div>\n Few temples in Chiang Mai has such colorful tower<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Saen Fang<\/p><\/div>\n Some strangely-acting animals<\/p><\/div>\n Second floor of Ubosot of Wat Buppharam<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Buppharam<\/p><\/div>\n It\u2019s quite interesting that one can find the image of the king before an altar<\/p><\/div>\n Mural on the ceiling<\/p><\/div>\n A Shopfront I encountered along the road, with multiple portraits of policemen hanging, don\u2019t know whether this is a poplice academy or a cloth store.<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Pha Bong<\/p><\/div>\n Then it\u2019s the best moment of the day. Before visiting Wat Phra Singh and while looking for parking for my bicycle, I came across Thammarat Sueksa School, which is located in the south of the temple and is affiliated to the temple. It seemed to me that there\u2019s no guard in the school (as there\u2019s no barrier between the school and the temple), I paid it a visit as a tourist.<\/p>\n Thammarat Sueksa School, affiliated to Wat Phra Sing<\/p><\/div>\n Although Thammarat Sueksa School is affiliated to the temple, it enrolls not only monks but also civilians, roughly 50-50 (one can also see this from its Facebook page). I took a close look at the gallery displaying their various trophies, during which there were students greeting me, to my amaze, in Chinese.<\/p>\n Slogans in Thammarat Sueksa School. Did they learn from the Chinese on the name of National Council for \u201cPeace and Order\u201d?<\/p><\/div>\n Hair station in Thammarat Sueksa School. Back then I judge on the poor state of this chair that it\u2019s no longer in use, until recently I saw on their Facebook page about pupils having their hair cut\u2026.<\/p><\/div>\n Cafeteria in Thammarat Sueksa School which also served as student hall.<\/p><\/div>\n I had a look at the price tags in their cafeteria while it\u2019s closed. It seemed that basically everything\u2019s below 20THB. Of course, given the environment in which the food is made, I would definitely eat out should I be a student here. I bet nobody would keep the students strictly inside campus in such a \u201copen\u201d school, as they usually do in Chinese schools.<\/p>\n State of dining tables in Thammarat Sueksa School<\/p><\/div>\n After wandering in the first floor for quite some time, I finally summoned enough courage to persuade myself that it\u2019s really OK to walk around in such a campus, and I decided to further my expedition upstairs. It seems that the Thai tradition of \u201cshoes-off\u201d has certainly reached schools, as Thammarat Sueksa School bans shoes beginning at the first stair upstairs. (At first I thought it\u2019s \u201cshoes-off\u201d all campus, so I roamed the first floor which my shoes in my hand, until someone recognized that I was apparently new to that school and reminded me it\u2019s \u201cshoes-off\u201d only from the stairs on, which I understood as that their school\u2019s totally open.) Usually they have shoe racks in classrooms, where pupils usually put their shoes. For me, in order to get upstairs, I put my very conspicuous NewBalance just on the stairs. <\/p>\n Corridor<\/p><\/div>\n Their classroom<\/p><\/div>\n In that school I had a chat with an English teacher and learned that this is largest temple school in Chiang Mai, for students in grades around 7~12. Spacious classrooms though not very well equipped, laughing schoolboys\u2026 Yet their classes quite resembled university ones, which people sleeping, texting, just not actually learning.<\/p>\n A board about mathematics, with more tricks than skills<\/p><\/div>\n I don\u2019t remember being taught so many math \u201ctricks\u201d by my elementary school teachers, maybe it\u2019s because Chinese elementary teachers are more practical and taught only the tricks that would appear in the exam paper, which is drafted by them anyway. Maybe they think it\u2019s a more effective investment to memorize \u201cmultiplication table\u201d than those tricks.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the end of the school part.<\/p>\n A memorial to the founders of Chiang Mai Kingdom in Wat Phra Singh<\/p><\/div>\n Some of the more seasoned temples in Wat Phra Singh<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Si Koed, I didn\u2019t quite understand the functionality of those white crossing threads. I guessed it\u2019s for object hanging in festivals, or just a reminder that people in it should stay low as to respect.<\/p><\/div>\n Inside Wat Thung Yung, Buda made of different materials<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Thung Yung, I liked this contrast of color<\/p><\/div>\n A shopping mall outside town. My mom couldn\u2019t bear this heat, so she resorted to shopping<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Phantao<\/p><\/div>\n Japanese style decorations in Wat Phantao<\/p><\/div>\n Inside the Ubosot of Chedi Luang Worawihan, there\u2019s a table beside this machine, with the meaning of different numbers. It took me quite a while to come to this fortune-telling of the digital time.<\/p><\/div>\n As the best located (not sure whether the largest) temple, Wat Chedi Lung Worawihan should of course be better decorated.<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan, the elephants on the second row were already damaged.<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan<\/p><\/div>\n Barely recognizable sculpture in Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan<\/p><\/div>\n A perimeter building in Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan, now a museum displaying the history of the temple<\/p><\/div>\n Then it\u2019s dinner, again we randomly picked a downtown restaurant.<\/p>\n Dinner at SEE YOU SOON, this is their \u201clobby\u201d when empty<\/p><\/div>\n Before dinner, I had a strawberry iceshake. #IceshakeInFebruary<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Chang Taem, located just near the restaurant where we had dinner. After we had dinner, it\u2019s closed.<\/p><\/div>\n Then we rode back to the bicycle shop, returned the bicycles and walked back hotel. Unlike yesterday, mom retired early and I decided to see this time again at night. In the day there\u2019s still some local resident chatting in the street, yet after dusk, people on the streets all talked in Chinese. <\/p>\n The river surrounding Chiang Mai old city<\/p><\/div>\n People playing sports in Yupparaj Wittayalai School. It\u2019s pretty shocking to me that the Thai \u201cno-shoe\u201d culture permeates even school playground.<\/p><\/div>\n Three King Memorial<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Inthakhin is one of the few temples that also open at night<\/p><\/div>\n In Wat Inthakhin, I found that it\u2019s the Chinese \u201cTwelve-Animals\u201d on the ribbon surrounding that Buda on the altar.<\/p><\/div>\n The King Mangrai Memorial<\/p><\/div>\n Only at night would I notice that there\u2019s a Buda offered high in Wat Chedi Luang Worawihan. In the day I would only marvel at its majesty.<\/p><\/div>\n Night in south Chiang Mai old city<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Phan On surround by bazar lights<\/p><\/div>\n Mobile ATM along the street. (What if one decides to steal the entire car?)<\/p><\/div>\n END<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today it\u2019s mainly the various temples in downtown Chiang Mai. So after breakfast we rented two bicycles and cycled randomly in town. In fact, given the density of temples in Chiang Mai, it\u2019s totally fine to walk. 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More than that, it felt like they truly welcome people in, to spread their faith to the devoted and their culture to the alien, while I have experienced so many temples in China that preyed on the admission fees with little to offer.
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