Today is temple day. The royal palace downtown is a huge open air exhibition of a forest of incredibly colourful temples, an overdoses of kitsch against which no single Christmas decoration in the west can compete. Impressive. Amongst the abundant wall decorations we managed to retrieve the 16^th century ancestors of the C-family, as well as a statue of Wassily. Odd how slow evolution of man and dog kind proceeds through the centuries.

The lying Buddha was the attraction of the day. He is lying (obviously) inside a temple, and is big, I mean BIG. One tow has the size of a human head. Unfortunately we had a brief moment of stress at the time: the camera remained dead the next hours. And the photo's taken with the mobile phone remind me of the sights I have without glasses/lenses. Luckily it turned out to be only the batteries - I could breath again cause the forecast to spend the next day in a shopping mall was not particularly attractive, moreover since it took Steven about 2 months to decide and buy our current camera.

We had lunch in some little bar where my mother would not believe I would dear to eat, but the food was nice and tasty (and so far we experience no discomfort of what kind so ever).

The afternoon we spend in a long tail boat on the 'Klongs', the little canals crossing Bangkok as a real spider web. As little voyeurs you can look in the back yard of the houses. The trip brought us the strangest combination of sloppy houses (some sinking away in the river), temples, posh villas of the newly arrived Thai, orchid farms and peaces of wasteland. Electricity and drinking water supplies are installed, though not exactly compliant to EU/US standards.

Next day is the last day in Bangkok already - in the evening we will take the night train to Kao Sok, to the 'jungle'.