Thailand

A variety of chopped, fresh fruit comes in a glass like the ones you see here. Pick the one you like and it gets blended with ice for a delicious…

Blue symbolizes purity, wisdom, and lack of materialism which, according to Buddhist belief, leads to limitless heights of ascension. I was surprised to learn that it was only in 1996…

Designed by the student of the artist who created the white temple, the blue temple is adorned with mythological characters like these serpents to keep evil spirits away.

The center piece of the interior is a shiny white buddha surrounded by colorful paintings covering every surface of the walls which depict the life of Buddha in a modern…

An artist who grew up in the village of Rong Khun used his own money to design and build this temple in 1951. In Buddhism, white signifies purity and the…

inside the white temple are murals that depict contemporary manifestations of good and evil within the Buddhist context. Batman, Superman even Keanu Reeves from Matrix are represented - there's a…

felt sort of like we'd been given permission to walk through the giant jewelry box of a spirit in the sky...yeah...when I die and they lay me to rest, gonna…

they don't do anything simple here! The exterior of this museum is adorned with gold figurines....exhibitions within paled in comparison to the spectacular artistry of the building

Several elephant sanctuaries offer a general activity format that provides opportunities to give the elephants a morning snack of bananas, help feed them their greens, wash them in a pond…

When we arrived at this particular sanctuary, we were escorted to a large barn and given a talk about the history of elephants in Thailand, the movement to protect them,…