Ta Prohm Angkor Wat - Cambodia

Ta Prohm is part of Angkor Wat complex. This wat is know for the cotton wood tree roots that have grown over the temple during years of being buried.

Karen Tribe Child - Thailand

This little girl is from the Karen Tribe in northern Thailand. She is too young to begin wearing the rings of the Long Neck Tribe which starts at age five. Regardless, she was full of fun and definately expressive.

Bhikkhuni Chiang Mai Thailand

Bhikkhuni or female Buddhist monks came to an end according to the rule that the female monks have to be ordained in both sides of male and female Buddhist monks. The female preceptor can do her duty in introducing only one candidate for female ordination once a year and has to wait during the next year. She can do again as the female preceptor when the third year comes.
In the history of Thailand there is no Bhikkhuni or female monk mentioned about, but there is a way appropriate for the women to imitate Bhikkhuni, that is to shave their heads and wear the white robes and vow to practice the eight precepts which lay stress more than five precepts on chastity, refraining from taking food after noon to dawn, refraining from dancing, singing, listening to or playing music, seeing the play, refraining from using garlands, scent, unguents, wearing finery and using high beds and large beds. Though they are still lay women but they are honoured as higher than general lay men for their formal uniforms, precepts and practice, in other words though Bhikkhunis or female monks came to an end through disciplinary rules they are reborn as eight-precepts-upasaka who are honoured. There is the Institute of Mae Chee or nuns in Thailand under patronage of Her Majesty the Queen.

Wat Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai - Thailand

In its day, Wat Chedi Luang must have been the most impressive temple in Chiang Mai. Built about 600 years ago, the huge chedi which gave the temple its name (the name of the temple translates to "royal pagoda") must have soared high above the surrounding city. We say "must have" because the chedi was mostly destroyed within a few hundred years of its construction. Some say it was an earthquake in the 17th century that did the deed; others say it was King Taksin's cannons firing on the city to chase out the Burmese in the 18th century.The pagoda has been partially reconstructed, but the spire has not been recreated since nobody can be sure what it looked like.
Reproduction of the Emerald Buddha in the Eastern niche of the chedi.
Wat Chedi Luang was also important because for a short time it housed the most important object in Thailand, the Emerald Buddha. The Emerald Buddha is now in its own temple in Bangkok, but a few years ago the king donated a replica to be placed in the eastern niche of the chedi.