Wat Chedi Luang

Temple Dogs
no shortage of stray dogs in buddhist country. The temple compounds were particularly full of them. While not a cush existence like North American beasts; Thai strays live better than the average Latin American mutt (but then what beast doesn't?)

Doi Suthep
More gold than you can imagine

Line of bells
these bells must sound glorious in the early morning as they ring out from the Doi Suthep hillside. However, during the day they are gonged atonally and mercilessly by Thai teenagers, camera-laden Japanese and quite a few Germans

Garuda and house sparrows
Garuda is the Hindu god of birds (as well as the carrier of Vishnu), so I couldn't resist the contrast of the wonderful house sparrow

Food spinners
In contrast to many Asian countries where street food is cooked to order (Vietnam for one), in Thailand, the street food is prepared in the morning. Consequently, they have tremendous problems with flies. The spinners in the photo here are wind-driven, but many have small motors. We saw quite a few that used old CDs are the blades.

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