It’s time we visited a temple 

The beach at Ban Krut is dominated by a large temple on a headland at the northern end. We’d been admiring i the previous day so we decided to burn some energy to get up the hill and take a look. 

First we made it to the Buddha. 50m tall and gold - pretty impressive. 

Carrying on on foot, we made our way to the temple up a wide elegantl staircase  

Inside there were some interesting spaces. The outer corridor ended in a picture window with a Buddha statue in every direction, and on two levels. All the doorways have lintels at the bottom, giving the appearance of a picture frame or mirror, also they were narrower at the top, giving a false perspective feel.  

Whilst I was waiting by the bicycles a group of Korean tourists started chatting to me. They were interested to hear about where we were going, where we’d been and the took an instant phot with me and gave me the print. Very nice of them. 

The rest of the journey went from small country roads to a main road to a farm track and back, but we got to our destination in the end.  

And what a destination. A beautiful house of a Warmshowers host. 

We were able to dive in to the pool and cool down. Bliss. Thanks Cedric and your wife.