Lucky Number 18

After a day of fishing on Saturday, we took a ride with some of the other volunteers on Sunday to visit two spectaular Temples at Bang Riang. At the first Temple, which was magnificent, and took well over an hour to view, there was an altar with a "fortune teller" statue. You shake a container that contains many long sticks, each with a number on them. Whichever stick falls out, its number corresponds to a nearby "dresser" with drawers with numbers on each drawer from which to choose your fortune. How fitting that I should shake the container and the number "18", a number quite significant to the Jewish faith, should be the one to fall out. I wont give away the substance of the fortune, but I will keep it forever.
We were some of the only visitors there, so it made the experience even more special and quiet. We walked down a "meditation" path used by the monks for particularly intense meditations, that was lovely and shaded.

The second temple looked like a combination dragon and fishing boat, the shape not too different than the long tail boat we fished in the day before.