Beautiful Sunday: So many people (can you spot some Steemit friends) watching the sunset on the Golden Mount Temple, คนแห่ไปขึ้นภูเขาทองกันแน่นมาก

in #busy4 years ago (edited)

This is my entry for #beautifulsunday hosted by @ace108. Never seen so many people queuing up to the top of the Golden Mount Temple or Wat Sa-ked. It is the annual one week festival in this temple, so people flooded the temple to make merits and have a good time.

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We had to wait for about half an hour to be able to climb the narrow staircase to the top floor which opened into open roof veranda. We could walk around the Golden Pagoda very slowly as the place was packed like sardine can! But the breezes were refreshing and the sunset was comforting so the stress of waiting went away.

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So, we had to queue for getting down from the roof-top veranda for half an hour. There were thousands of people of all ages there. I was amazed that these people were very patient and in good humour. They were there to make merits or good karma and enjoy the temple fair and street food.

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เราไปวัดภูเขาทองวันอาทิตย์ พลาดไปจริงๆ เจอคนหลายพันคนในงานวัดประจำปีของที่นี่ สนุกมากกับการได้เห็นงานวัดแบบโบราณ และของกินแปลกๆและหากินยากเต็มลานวัด แต่พวกเราก็ต้องเข้าแถวเพื่อขึ้นไปบนชั้นสูงสุดของภูเขาทองนานมาก พอขึ้นไปถึงพระอาทิตย์ใกล้ตกพอดี ลมโกรกมาทำให้หายเหนื่อย คนเบียดกันมาก แต่ทุกคนก็ไม่แสดงอารมณ์ คนตั้งใจมาทำบุญและมาไหว้พระบรมสารีริกธาตุกันหลายพันคน เราคิดว่าคนคงขึ้น ลงภูเขาทองกันถึงเที่ยงคืน

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เราพาเพื่อนไปเดินเล่นถ่ายรูป และเล่นยิงปืน ผิดคาด! เขายิงกันเก่งมาก ได้ตุ๊กตากลับไปฝากคนที่บ้านตั้งแปดตัว แถมได้ซื้อของเล่นราคาคนไทยอีกด้วย สนุกกันดีจริง และได้นั่งรถตุ๊กตุ๊กไปลงเรือด่วน เพื่อไปท่าสี่พระยา. เหล่าพวกไฮโซไปกินข้าวล่องเรือตามแม่นํ้าเจ้าพระยา ดูไฟยามคํ่าคืนกัน สนุกกันเต็มที่ก่อนกลับบ้านไปทำงานตามปกติ

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Luckily we casually walked around taking photos and taking in the atmosphere. We had to go with the flow and just trusted everything will work out fine! Good humour and positivity paid off very well. We played a few games at the fair, unexpectedly got several doll trophies! These are good shooters!

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It’s getting dark and we must get some food; lucky people are going on a Steemit cruise for dinner! This is a dark night photo!

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Wishing you all a very nice trip and a good time!

Cheers.

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What a wonderful spectacle. I like how you mention the good mood and patience of the people. Well noted. Resteemed

Thank you so much! I was quite amazed!

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Nice sunset on the Golden Mount Temple photography.

Thanks for dropping by!
Have a nice day!

Sorry, I couldn't make it this time round.

You still have more opportunity to visit Bangkok!
It’s very near you!

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My legs are falling off! Never walk like a marathon for years!

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You were there? In the image I spotted gamer00 and his 13 year old son

Hahaha! And I thought you wear thick glasses like I do! Hawk eyes!!
These two were good shooters! The father one was excellent! Poor vendor! These two took about 8-9 small doll trophies as their prizes! I would not make him angry as he’s a sharp shooter!!

Cheers.

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Thank you very much!

It seems like all the temples there are going on with festival.

Yes! Today is very important full day!
It’s Loy Krathong day, festival of floating lights!!

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Yes, I figure out only in the last few days as more decorations come out.

Very busy by the river! Hundreds of people with motor bikes! We went to Loy Kratong at Yannawa temple by the river!

Too bad I could stay for another day.

The next day was too crowded! You won’t enjoy it! But you should come back for the seaside holiday on a nearby island!
Just chill out and slow down! (I need this myself!)

Even though it was crowded it still seem like people were in good spirits did you catch up with any steemit friends 🙂

Yeah! I did meet up with two nice Vikings!! I thought they were good at swords!! Oh! No! They are very good with rifles! If they stayed longer, the vendor at the temple fair would go out of business!!

Tried to meet up with three more, but they left Bangkok a bit too soon!

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Are you sure they were not Americans well at least they were kind enough to leave some prizes on the shelves for the vendor...lol 🤣

Yeah how ironical i got called out to go to Koh Samui for some work meetings and missed it all.

Looks like a wonderful place to be!

Yeah! But it would be much nicer to come on a quiet day!

Oh that's where @gameroo and Leo won their souvenirs!

He was so excited!

And the footage from the top looks amazing.

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Thank you very much for your kind visit!

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