The Chiang Mai HELL Temple! – VIDEO
I thought MY imagination was twisted…
Wat a Day – Chiang Mai, Thailand
The original Wat Chedi Luang was built six centuries ago, so it looks a bit battered and falling down. It has big elephants on it. It’s like a giant birthday cake after the kids grabbed fistfuls of it…
Rough Riding – Chiang Mai, Thailand
…My left knee jams under the accelerator grip, and the next thing I know, I’ve lost power, lost my balance and I’m toppling, slowly and gracelessly toward the ground. A group of monks are laughing at me uproariously. I pick myself up with Buddhist humility, and ride slowly and carefully out the temple gate… Flashback:…
Plastic Monks – Ayuthaya, Thailand
Facing each other across the Chao Phraya River, in Ayuthaya, Thailand, two temples present a stark historical contrast. Wat Tha Ka Rong is a bustling modern complex, something between a strip mall and a church. A stone’s throw away is Wat Chaiwattanarm, a crumbling ruin dating from the early 17th century. (Top photo: what…
Tied Together – Vientiane, Laos
She twists and struggles, but he pulls her hair several times before releasing it and steers her into the foyer of the hotel…
Saddle Sore – Angkor Wat, Cambodia
…There is a vertiginous weight about the structures. Passing through the gates into the temple enclosure, struggling up the endless steep stairways, I am acutely aware of the intention of Angkor’s architects: impress the bollocks off people – make them feel very small… Me and J-man get on the slow train out of Bangkok. Actually,…
Pyromania – Sitges, Spain
The madness begins with the “Festa Major” day parade, a.k.a. the “almost blowing small children’s heads off parade…”