Wat? Flickr photo of the day
Search for images of Wat Arun and you will find hundreds taken from the same angle: looking up. For the few and the proud who have good thighs and no fear of heights, there is another angle: looking down. There are steps; narrow little steps, going almost straight up to the balcony of the nearly 250-foot-tall temple. Then there’s the descent; some employ, shall we say, ze derrière?
Dating back to the 1600s, Wat Arun, the “Temple of Dawn,” was restored to its present height by King Rama II, second monarch of Siam under the House of Chakri, in about 1815. His son, King Rama III, put on the finishing touches.
Fearlessly photographed by Kenneth Neo.
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