Saturday, October 06, 2007

Snapshots of Thailand

This little shrine of sorts was on the grounds of our hotel.

Traditional Thai musicians in a restaurant where we had dinner one night.

This picture was taken for us by a friendly stranger after our dinner at a place called "On the Rock", a restaurant that we had to follow many twists and turns of this wooden bridge through what seemed to be rainforest to get up to. It was literally built into a cliff overlooking the shoreline. As seems to be common, the sides of the resaurant were all open to the elements... evidently it is warm enough year round for this to work. It allowed the sounds of the Andaman Sea to drift right in, providing wonderful dinner music! The lobby of our hotel was this way also, not enclosed.



This was the uniform for the traffic police. Not sure what this large nut was, but it appeared to have fallen from the palm trees near the beach. Coconut?

Loved these flowering trees. Anyone know what they are called?



4 comments:

park it said...

Reminds me of Hawaii - Such an amazing beauty to behold!
Looks like you had a great time!
hugs fm -
c & k

Kayce said...

Love the toes! I think the flowers are Plumaria?? Could be wrong. Thanks for sharing the pics..BEAUTIFUL!!

Mary and Justin said...

it looks gorgeous there!!!

Glen and Andrea said...

I love your blog and I was so excited to see your Thailand photos as we are off there in a few months to meet our little boy!! That flowering tree is definately a Frangipani they are very common down here in the warmest parts of the Southern Hemisphere. They are absolutely stunning and there are about 100 variations much like daffodills, some are peach or yellow or pink with slight differences in the petals and form of the flower.

Andrea from NZ.