Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Kasma pounds Green Papaya Salad
Here Kasma is showing the students in her weeklong cooking class (First Week) how to make green papaya salad.
Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Chaiya Buddha Detail
I like that photography can let us focus in on details to let us see things in a different way. This is Kasma’s picture of a detail on a Buddha statue at Wat Phra Boram That in Chaiya, Thailand. You can see a slightly more expansive detail in Michael’s photo in an earlier Wednesday Photo blog:
Another Chaiya Buddha.
Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
False clown anemonefish in Krabi
Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Frying Bananas on a boat at Damneon Saduak Floating Market
Everyone should visit Damneon Saduak Floating Market south of Bangkok at least once. I recommend doing what Kasma does on her trips: hire a car, get up at the crack of dawn and arrive at the market around 7:00 a.m. in the morning. Then rent a boat and enjoy being paddled around on the klong (canals). At that time in the morning it’s a true local market: the tourists and tourist buses haven’t yet arrived and you can enjoy the market in relative peace and quiet.
I have te believe that images such as this are among the most widely known images of Thailand: a vendor on a boat with a straw hat. I love this picture of Kasma’s, taken on an old 35-mm Olympus camera in 1999. The first time I went to the market I was amazed to see vendors cooking everything right on the boat.
Floating markets are largely a remnant from the past, when much of the country lived along the canals (klong). Recently many other floating markets have opened, many of them much more strictly local than Damneon Saduak, perhaps the best known of the Thai floating markets.
Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Pre-made food at Aw Taw Kaw
I am such a sucker for pictures of street food / market food. Kasma sent this picture to me when she was at Aw Taw Kaw market enjoying herself and I was back in California taking care of things here. I loved the picture: just seeing it brought up the feel of a Thai market, with the delicious looking pre-made food amongst interesting stalls, the smiling vendors and the jostling crowds. It would be very hard to just walk past this delicious looking crab. Yum!
Welcome to The Wednesday Photo – a new picture each week highlighting something of interest in Thailand. Click on the picture to see a larger version.
Earth Mother Goddess Mural at Doi Suthep
You may recall the statue of the Earth Mother Goddess, Ubon Ratchathani from last December. One of my favorite temples in Thailand is Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai (see Doi Suthep Buddha). This mural is found in one of the temples there. I’ve related the story of the picture in my previous post: the short version is that as the Earth Mother Goddess bore witness to the Buddha’s enlightenment, she wrung the water from her hair and the flood swept all the illusions (personified by Mara) away.
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