Samui to Bangkok

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From Siem Reap we flew to Koh Samui where I completed a week long fast. Had long daily massages, sociable saunas and took walks on the beach at dawn.

 

Barbara. not wanting to take part in a fasting/cleansing programme was at a bit of a loose end but she gamely ate her way through the surprisingly good and very healthy menu, now that's friendship.

I had a nail biting few days e-mailing Bangkok to try to organize a business visa for Myanmar. 

The Thai King's 80th birthday and a Burmese holiday conspired against me but at the eleventh hour I got it in time to change my flight home to depart Myanmar on February 18th.
This was a fabulous time to be in Bangkok where they were still celebrating the King's 80th birthday as they had been all year.  Everywhere was covered in royal yellow, swaged with blue, pink red or purple.  

Flags flew from every lamppost and building.  Bunting hung over streets.  Every few yard along the major streets were larger than life portraits of the King and his Queen.  

Unless as here at his most formal he is often photographed with his SLR slung around his neck or resting on his knee.   

 

Everywhere looked spectacular at the Thai Cultural Center.  The night before we arrived there had been a  Royal Gala  performance by the Mariinsky Ballet Company.  A birthday tribute from the people of Russia.

 

Thanks to Barbara for this photo.  

I didn't feel like hauling my SLR to the ballet and regretted it the moment I saw the Cultural Center all decked out for a very special occassion.

Memo to self:   Pack a point and shoot next time.

There is a long long story associated with this image.

 
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