Meet a Friend in Thailand

Chapter 12 Visiting Wat Pho and the Pagoda

It has been about three days, Putry, Mami Tiara and others are in Bangkok.With the agenda of activities carried out every day make the time not felt already in the third day.

Yes, today is his schedule to travel to know the beautiful places to be immortalized into a photo in downtown Bangkok.After business and survey of the campus Putry finished then they finally vacation.

The first to be visited is Wat Pho, brief information about this place is also known as the reclining Buddhist Temple, is the Buddhist Temple of Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, Thailand, Thailand, it is located in the Rattanakosin district directly adjacent to the King's Palace. The temple is officially named Wat Phra Chetuphon Vimolmangklararm.

And the second place to visit is the Pagoda, a tiered tower in East Asian style with some of the same roofs, such as in Nepal, India, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other Asian regions. Most pagodas are built to have religious functions, most often for Buddhists but sometimes Daoists, and are often located in or near monasteries. The pagoda traces its origins to ancient Indian stupas.

The time at the hotel has shown at eight, after getting ready and cleaning the hotel room, the,the four of them rushed to the restaurant on the ground floor.Breakfast this morning as usual with bread combined with strawberry jam and a glass of Capuchino.

They are waiting for a car invitation that will take him to where he wants to stop today.

A few minutes waiting for the metallic blue pickup car to arrive and they finished their breakfast the next morning.

Immediately, the four men rushed to the car parked in front of the hotel.

"Is this in the name of Mother Tiara?" The driver asked.

"Yes, stick with me." replied Tiara.

"Well then, we are on behalf of the tour and travel company PT.Maju Mundur Kena want to pick up Mother and others to travel on this day, please go inside."

Then the driver got out of his car and immediately opened the rear car door.

"Please."

The four men then entered the car .

"If you feel cramped in the back, please go ahead yes, make one more person." Next up is the driver.

Finally the forward sitting in the front seat is his tour guide staff.

"Alright, I'll fill the front seat."

Then the tour guide staff got out of the car and went back up from the front door.

Hours later, the car arrived at the Watpho parking lot.

"We have arrived at Watpho Temple." The tour guide tells passengers sitting in the back seat.

"Oh, have we arrived yet?Great design of the building."

"Can we take a picture there?" Ask Putry to the Tour Guide who sits in the front seat while removing the seat belt of the car seat attached to his waist.

"By neng Put, just follow the rules written there." The answer.

"Ready, then let's get out of the car immediately." Take Putry.

"Yes, mami also wants to come down this, red and stuffy for a long time in the car." Mama Tiara's.

"Oiya, what about the driver?come with us or what?" mami Tiara asked the driver who was smoking a cigarette.

"Then I just go there, ma'am, coffee at the cafe across the street." Pinta sir driver while pointing at the place in question.

"Oh yes already then sir, please call me later if you want to continue the trip." Mami Tiara's instructions to the driver.

"Ready, do ma'am!"

Then, Mami Tiara, Putry and others rushed to leave the car parked in the parking lot.Lajut went around the temple area to be the object of his personal portrait,While the driver walked to the opposite direction to visit the Cafe located across the street to ride a break for a while and order coffee.She will make a coffee while resting for a while to drive fresh again.

as Putry was walking the streets enjoying the view and observing the building before him, Putry asked,

"Sir, why is the building called Watpho?"

"Don't Putry know?"

"No mbak, eat it me to mbak,hehe."

"Okay well I explained yes neng Putry, Watpho is a temple that is Buddhist and has a statue of Buddha lying down and is the largest Buddha statue in Thailand covered in gold and pearly, engraved,neng Put was so the explanation." Clearly the Tour guide is long.

"Oh so yes mbak, after Watpho was built when?" Putry asked again.

"Well, it was built in the sixteenth century and restored by King Rama one in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight,the temple that can now be visited by tourists is a temple that has been completed during the reign of King Rama three in the year eighty hundred and thirty-two." tour guide it explained.

"Oh, like that, its history." Putry.

"Yes to Put."

After being satisfied around and were satisfied to take pictures at the place now they decided to return to the car because the weather and the air temperature outside was getting hotter during the day.

"So soon, I called the driver to leave again." Mami Tiara.

Then Mami Tiara took her cellphone stored in her small bag and immediately memijit mobile phone and called her.

Mami Tiara ("Hello,Asalamualaikum sir,")

Mr. Driver: ("Waalaikunsalam, You're done?")

Mami Tiara ("Yes sir, we'll wait in the car.")

Once finished then, the phone that is still connected immediately turned off mami Tiara.So will be answered again the same driver, the phone connection has been cut off.

The driver who was in the opposite cafe immediately rushed to the parking lot where the car was located.

Arriving at the Parkiran, then the driver entered his car and immediately started his car engine.

Once the car is on then the engine is heated first so as not to strike in the middle of the road.

The driver asked, "Has everyone entered the car?"

Then answered Mami Tiara, "All have entered the car sir"

"Well then, we continue the second journey to the Pagoda?"

"Yes, sir."

The car came out of the parking lot and drove towards the road to the east.The atmosphere is not too crowded on the highway Mr. Driver was a bit slow the steering.Twenty-five minutes passed and then they arrived to the place intended.

"As usual, you want to come with us or what?" Mami Tiara asked the driver to make sure.

"For now, I'll just wait in the car, yeah, it's busy."

"I parked here, and when I'm done here I'm not going anywhere." Further again.

"Well then, me and the others go there first." Said Mami Tiara while pointing at the place in question.