Wednesday Walk - To The Meditation Temple !!

Today Wednesday morning was a free morning for me in actual fact no work today and it was a perferct day for a walk a little cloudy and a fresh morning. So i decided there is this particular temple that i have always wanted to see and today was the perfect opportunity to go see this temple so i got myself ready have a couple cups of coffee grabed all the gear i needed and walked of to the skytrain station and i was my way to visit this Temple.

Arriving at the closest train stop to the temple it was about an one kilometer walk to the temple a beautiful day for a walk through the busy touristy area many Tuk Tuk's around if you don't like to walk but i prefer to walk you get to see more and photograph what you like.

So here i am have on the grounds of the Temple and the name of this Temple is the Wat Ratchanaddaram Temple meaning the temple of peace and meditation and it is the main reason why i wanted to come here as sometimes i feel i need to be alone just sit some where enjoy the peace and quietness without been disturbed and this was the perfect temple just to do that.

Any Temple you go to in Thailand before you enter you take your shoes of and step into the temple without putting your feet on the lower part of the door frame beneath you always step over that it's a sign of respect and enter the temple as if you were entering a library no talking. Every temple always has a temple dog or cat as a security guard but they are always alseep.

The Temple is seven stories high and each floor except for the very top floor has long hallways with small benches where you can either sit down or walk the hallways up and down in any direction and meditate and in the center of the temple it has a steep spiral staircase to climb and choose which floor you like to meditate on.

This is looking at the meditation hallways from the outside of the Temple.

The actual Temple was designed by H.M. King Nangklao for his favorite Grand Daughter , Princess Somanass Waddhanawathy in 1846. So this temple certainly has a lot of history behind it.

It most definitely has some great views of the city of Bangkok from the seventh floor of this temple and over looking the smaller temple surrounding the main temple.

Looking down on the roof of the Temple.

After doing my walking meditation on the sixth floor they say higher up you are in a temple the better it purifies your mind and soul. Having done that and feeling better about myself i head back down the steep spiral staircase head out of the temple and take a couple more photos of this beautiful temple.

Some History on the Wat Ratchanaddaram Temple for your information if you like to know more about the Temple.

After finishing up my walking meditation in the hallways of the temple i headed across the road to breath some fresh oxygen from these beautiful trees in this park i saw from the rooftop of the temple.

The day was really starting to heat up i decided i had done enough walking time to go home , walking along the river canal to head out of the park a Komodo Dragon comes out of the water to say hello to me says hello i snap a couple shots of him and he goes by his own business.

Walk out to the main road jump in a Tuk Tuk and ask him to take me to the nearest skytrain station and my day could not have been any better.

Tuk Tuk take me home...hehe :)

Thank you @tattoodjay for #wednesdaywalk challenge it's certainly giving me more of a boost to get out there and see the beautiful things around us.