Showing posts with label Phimai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phimai. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Oldest and Biggest Banyan Tree in Thailand!

Yes, I am dedicating a whole post to a tree. What a wonderfully magical tree it is, though! The little park is called Sai-Ngarm, meaning either 'Sweeping Banyans" or "Beautiful Banyan". The Banyan Tree in this park covers an area of over 35,000 square feet and more than 350 years old. And yes, there are 3 videos BUT it's like a mystery that I needed to solve because it was very hard to figure out which was the original tree that 'gave birth' to all of these other treelike branches!...and I'd been traveling alone for almost a month, missing my friends, so I became really close with my camera on this day. (This one's for Lindsey, who showed me branches in a different light.)











Stop calling it "bunion" tree!!!







Mystery solved!!










What the island of Banyan looks like from the outside.

Yours Truly Madly Deeply

Phimai, Thailand, in photos

Rotee - Thai pancake. Yes, I love you. Banana and egg with sweetened milk and sugar. Lemon and sugar is good, too. And yes that is butter.

Phimai Historical Park. Older than Angkor Wat.
Phimai Historical Park
The Queen and King decades ago. How cool does he look? Very!
Phimai Historical Park, where I had one of two photo shoots that day.














At the Phimai market, I learned that Brooklyn consists strictly of hipsters.
YUM!
I freaking love Thai night markets.
Watch the video