Copyright: Wat Arun
After lunch at the Baiyoke Tower and the short walk back to our hotel, we have also been picked up for our afternoon tour.
With a nice guide it started in an air-conditioned minibus through the midday traffic in Bangkok. The bus took us to a pier on the Chao Phraya. From there we took a longtail boat along the river to Wat Arun - the Temple of Dawn.
With a nice guide it started in an air-conditioned minibus through the midday traffic in Bangkok. The bus took us to a pier on the Chao Phraya. From there we took a longtail boat along the river to Wat Arun - the Temple of Dawn.
The pier
trip on the Chao Phraya
The temple was to visit beautiful but it was too hot to climb the tower. Only Robert and Herbert took the trouble to climb up the 66 steep stairs and shoot a few photos from above. Of course, our tiredness beigeitragen has to be the temple only on the surface to see what a great pity is because there would have been even more determined to discover beautiful. The most important thing we were little bottles of drinking water to quench our thirst and to make the heat bearable. Nevertheless, the temple was impressive.
First impressions of the temple:
Info:
Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) is named after the Indian goddess of the dawn "Aruna" and he is on the side of the Chao Phraya-Thoburi. His full name is Wat Arunratchawararam Ratchaworamahavihara (วัด อรุณ ราชวราราม ราชวรมหาวิหาร).
Originally called Wat Makok (Olive Temple) and was built in the Ayutthaya period, was later renamed by Rama Taksin in Wat Chaeng. For a short time was in this temple also houses the Emerald Buddha, who also came in 1784 in the Wat Phra Kaew. The future king Rama II finally gave the temple named Wat Arunratchatharam. He left the temple and restored and enlarged the central prang, Rama III, completed the work and finally, Rama IV gave the temple its present name. 2005, the first Western monk ordained.
On the exceptional Prang in Khmer Still stairs leading to two terraces. The height of the pillory is our stated differently - 66.8 and 86 m height. The tower symbolizes the world mountain Meru, the center of the universe. The main tower and its four subsidiary towers are covered with a mosaic of porcelain shards that were once used by Chinese boats as ballast. The
of Kinnaris (hermaphrodites from human and bird) and Yakshas (demons)-based planes symbolize the Buddhist heaven.
Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) is named after the Indian goddess of the dawn "Aruna" and he is on the side of the Chao Phraya-Thoburi. His full name is Wat Arunratchawararam Ratchaworamahavihara (วัด อรุณ ราชวราราม ราชวรมหาวิหาร).
Originally called Wat Makok (Olive Temple) and was built in the Ayutthaya period, was later renamed by Rama Taksin in Wat Chaeng. For a short time was in this temple also houses the Emerald Buddha, who also came in 1784 in the Wat Phra Kaew. The future king Rama II finally gave the temple named Wat Arunratchatharam. He left the temple and restored and enlarged the central prang, Rama III, completed the work and finally, Rama IV gave the temple its present name. 2005, the first Western monk ordained.
On the exceptional Prang in Khmer Still stairs leading to two terraces. The height of the pillory is our stated differently - 66.8 and 86 m height. The tower symbolizes the world mountain Meru, the center of the universe. The main tower and its four subsidiary towers are covered with a mosaic of porcelain shards that were once used by Chinese boats as ballast. The
of Kinnaris (hermaphrodites from human and bird) and Yakshas (demons)-based planes symbolize the Buddhist heaven.
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