The start of another series of wat photos - for those who hate temple architecture, please skip the next couple of posts...
With the topmost wheel of Dhamma hidden in this view, the middle two wheels look like eyes:
The curving layers of the roof that make the sim look as if it could flap its wings & fly away, like in some Hayao Miyazaki anime film:
Many temples have plain roof edgings, but this one has winged deities stencilled in gold:
Cylindrical khom bang ໂຄມບັ້ງ lanterns are leftovers from last October's Boun Lai Heua Fai. Peeping beneath the roof at what holds it up - even more gold stencilling on every available square millimetre of surface area, including the beams:
November 30, 2008
281206 Wat Xieng Thong - sim
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