Wat Arun Temple

We went to Wat Arun which is one of the most famous Thai temples. When you just google Thailand it is one of the first things to pop up in the picture section, usually lit up at night across the water. I will admit it's a beautiful setting like that though maybe a bit deceiving, mostly because you can't see the water is churning and a rather solid brown color.

It was a beautiful and breathtaking temple though and there were such cool details everywhere. Saskia did some reading about it and told us that when it was being made they didn't have enough for the mosaics so the people smashed and donated their good pottery and ceramics so that they could continue to decorate, she wasn't quite sure of the english translation but said that it essentially gave them good karma (more or less) for their next lives. I thought that was really cool. The entire thing was really beautiful and the surrounding buildings as well.

The temple you were allowed to climb up to the second level but not further. The detail was pretty stunning though. If you can see in the top there is statues of three elephants in each little top window. Another thing that struck me is that in the side building the walls were white with blue and pink flowers with green leaves decorating it and it looked like the wallpaper to some English tea room to me. It can be best seen in some of the lower pictures.