Phaholyothin Road

Some photographs from a crack-of-dawn trip to a temple in Kanchanaburi. First we had to gather offerings and prepare hundreds of tiny bags of rice, honey and flowers. Then travel, change into temple garb, wait for a procession of monks to come past, have lunch, travel to some other temples because that one didn’t want the things we’d collected, and lastly pack up our things and drive home. First time for me to do that and to see people arrive at 5am in their hundreds to loud gonging and chanting that created an ominous and expectant atmosphere as a dawn chorus.

3rd July 2010—EtK

Kanchanburi, Thailand