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<\/a>Super Highway leading to Wat Rong Khun at dawn. The prefix \u201csuper\u201d was probably to address the number of lanes (rather than the speed limits). The two (unlicensed) drivers of us basically only rode on the side roads with little traffic.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The fuel gauge of my mom\u2019s bike\u2019s nearly empty. Yet it seems all the gas stations were on the other side of the road. Since this is anyway a \u201chighway\u201d we stayed on our side.<\/p><\/div>\n
It wasn\u2019t until nearly half way that we found a gas station on our side of the highway and resolved the fuel gauge issue. Upon arriving at Wat Rong Khun, we found the whole temple had nearly been occupied by Chinese tour groups, with a majority of them coming from Chiang Mai early in the morning, and some taking minivan tours from Chiang Rai. It seemed that there were few people riding motorbikes like us two. The whole Wat Rong Khun welcomed these Chinese tourists from loud speakers It was cloudy that day. Since Wat Rong Khun\u2019s covered with tiny reflecting mirrors, which glitters magnificently in sunshine. Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Only the main temple of the Wat Rong Khun is open for visit, other parts can only be viewed at distance, maybe because they were still under construction.<\/p>\n \u201dGuards\u201d at the entrance to Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n The part of Wat Rong Khun that\u2019s not open for visit<\/p><\/div>\n Side of the Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n This pool\u2019s nicely decorated, with quite some donations in it<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n The majority of Wat Rong Khun functioned more like a museum, but since it\u2019s called a \u201ctemple\u201d, there should be some gods for people to worship. So here it was in the corner, a Buddhism god for fortune.<\/p><\/div>\n Other parts of Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n This was another part of Wat Rong Khun which functioned more like normal Thai temple and was still under construction.<\/p><\/div>\n The following photos come from raw and have undergone limited adjustment Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Entrance to Wat Rong Khun, sculpture of hands<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Detail of Wat Rong Khun, this should be an oxygen-enriching device<\/p><\/div>\n Detail of Wat Rong Khun, this was a no-smoking sign<\/p><\/div>\n Just next to Wat Rong Khun there\u2019s an art museum featuring the designer of Wat Rong Khun. No photos inside.<\/p>\n Then we picked a less traveled road back to Chiang Rai and visited Singha Park along the way.<\/p>\n Farm land near Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Road leading to Singha Park from Wat Rong Khun<\/p><\/div>\n Another road into Chiang Rai passing Singha Park, not as wide as the previous super highway and less traveled.<\/p><\/div>\n Maybe because it\u2019s winter, when we arrived at it, we found Singha Park not as attractive as in the photos where grass extends beyond horizon. It\u2019s like a park where the locals hung around.<\/p>\n Singha Park, sprinkles of flowers in winter<\/p><\/div>\n Singha Park, guess this is field trip of a local school<\/p><\/div>\n And this was obviously an artificial park, with lots of money poured by local government.<\/p>\n Singha Park, this is sort of \u201cvisitor center\u201d near its entrance<\/p><\/div>\n Singha Park\uff0c\u5165\u53e3\u5904\u7684\u88c5\u9970 Singha Park, this is sort of \u201cvisitor center\u201d near its entrance<\/p><\/div>\n Singha Park, there\u2019s road signs in Chinese<\/p><\/div>\n Then we went back to downtown Chiang Rai. It\u2019s 1 in the afternoon, and we randomly picked a restaurant along the road for lunch.<\/p>\n Lunch, the waitress who didn\u2019t speak very good English called this thing \u201cThai Salad\u201d. Conclusion: It\u2019s called Thai because it contained a unique Thai spice, it\u2019s called salad because the rest of it was vegetarian. For those who don\u2019t appreciate hot food like me, hell.<\/p><\/div>\n When placing orders, the waitress recommended a kind of \u201cThai Salad\u201d as their special. Since we stuffed our bellies with night bazaar in Pai, I chose \u201cpork + Thai Salad\u201d hoping to reacquaint myself with the taste of meat. It turned out, that Thai Salad really burned. After lunch we were off to Baan Dam. Both Baan Dam and Wat Rong Khun are along Super Highway, yet on two different directions from Chiang Rai City.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no surprise that at Baan Dam, the terrace\u2019s filled with Chinese tour groups and local minivan groups. My mom and I seemed to be the only ones that came by motorcycle.<\/p>\n With clouds blocking the sun, it was quite cold that day, but I only brought shorts thinking Thai climate would only be between warm and hot. And then there\u2019s the Baan Dam depicting death, plus it\u2019s nearing dusk, it felt quite gruesome.<\/p>\n Entrance to Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Exhibits in Ubosot of Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Exhibits in Ubosot of Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Exhibits in Ubosot of Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n It seemed that Baan Dam mirrored the management model of Wat Rong Khun, which opened its main Ubosot for visit and walled off other buildings. But unlike Wat Rong Khun, there\u2019re also exhibits in the perimeter buildings of Baan Dam.<\/p>\n Exhibits in perimeter Baan Dam, this seemed to be some tribal burial<\/p><\/div>\n Exhibits in perimeter Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n A quite seasoned craving in Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Manufacture area in perimeter Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n Entrance to Baan Dam<\/p><\/div>\n When we left Baan Dam, we needed to cross the Super Highway. My mom and I were unskilled Then we rode back to Chiang Rai. There\u2019s too much wind that for once I thought the cell phones in my pocket were blown off.<\/p>\n The super highway back to Chiang Rai<\/p><\/div>\n Approaching downtown and traffic began to accumulate<\/p><\/div>\n Having returned our bikes to the hotel, I learned from the lunch and insisted eating something non-Thai. We arrived at a pizza shop, and since any pork I had for lunch was completely overwhelmed by that strange Thai salad sauce, so I still \u201chadn\u2019t eaten meat for days\u201d and ordered a pizza with only meat (round 440THB). After dinner, my mom insisted that our next meal should be vegetarian. <\/p>\n We finished dinner in a Pizza Company (which is a Thai pizza chain)<\/p><\/div>\n Rush hour in a taxi<\/p><\/div>\n Then we took a taxi to Chiang Rai airport, end of day in Chiang Rai.<\/p>\n END<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are only staying at Chiang Rai for one day, having checked out of the hotel in the morning we asked the front desk clerk about motorcycle rent (last night as I walked around Chiang Rai, I found… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[38,39,155,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} while reminding them to behave<\/del>.<\/p>\n
\nP.S. Given the amount of Chinese tourists, I found it quite hard to take photos without having to Photoshop people out.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>for I\u2019m not too familiar with Photoshop<\/del>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
Singha Park, decorations near its entrance<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nMuch to our luck, the same restaurant offered chicken rings that were much more visitor-friendly.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>and unlicensed<\/del>, the traffic never seemed to stop and we were never able to cross the road, that is, until two locals happened to cross the road.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>