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| We Three Kings of Orient Are/Bearing Gifts We Traverse Afar (Not "We Travel So Far") |
This one is going to be about as short as the tourist line to see the Three Kings.
Just a few blocks north of the massive Watchediluang Varaviharn temple complex, with their own city square, is the statue honoring Kings Mengrai, Ramkamhaeng and Ngam Muang, the purported founding fathers of Chiang Mai. (I had to look that up on google. Think I could remember those names?)
Enough tourists to let you know that this is a photo op. Few enough tourists to get the camera angles you want.
This one has elephants:
All the best statues have threes of whatever it is being depicted statuarially.
It's a word. I insist.
And what would a statue of We Three Kings Of Orient Are-ing be without a little O Tanenbaum?
Another Christmas Tree. And it's Candlemas today. The last day you are legally allowed to display a Christmas Tree until the next first day of Advent. (God's law. Not man's law.)
Again, one of the great things about a personalized, improvised free walking tour is that I, in my capacity as both the guide and the guided, gets to decide how much time at each stop. This was a three-or-four minute stop. Still worth it. Just not worth dwelling over.
And where is the next stop on this improvised free walking tour?
That's your clue right there.
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