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The document summarizes the writer's first day touring attractions in Bangkok such as Wat Pho temple and the Reclining Buddha. It discusses notable temples, markets, and the history of the city. The writer had dinner while watching folk dances and the second largest city in Thailand is Chiang Mai where one can visit the winter palace.

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Sawatdee Handouts

The document summarizes the writer's first day touring attractions in Bangkok such as Wat Pho temple and the Reclining Buddha. It discusses notable temples, markets, and the history of the city. The writer had dinner while watching folk dances and the second largest city in Thailand is Chiang Mai where one can visit the winter palace.

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“Sawatdee… Hello Beautiful Bangkok.

” By Ethel Silovan-Timbol

Bangkok known as Krun Thep, which is Thai for ―City of


Angels, beckons with its golden roofed temples and spicily 1. What does Krun Thep means?
curried cuisine. 2. What were indicated in the City of Angels?

Seven million visitors come to Thailand each year spending 1. How many visitors come to Thailand each year?
an average of six to seven days because there is so much to 2. What do you think is their reason for visiting?
see and to relish in this ―Exotic Orient as one enamored
traveler dubbed the country.

Our agenda for the first day of our tour started with a 1. What was the agenda of the writer on their first day?
tour of Wat Pho. One of the 370 temples in Bangkok 2. What is Wat Pho?
alone, it is home to the famous Reclining Buddha,
which is said to be 46 meters long.

Also, world–famous are the golden Buddha at the Wat Trinig 1. What are the highlighted words/phrases in
and the dazzling Emerald Buddha. There are 2100 temples paragraph?
in all of Thailand, where 90 percent of the people are Buddhists. 2. The two highlighted phrases are classified as what?
3. How many temples all in all are there in Thailand?

Our loquacious guide regales us with the colorful history of


Bangkok and how it became the imperial city 300 years
1. What do the highlighted words mean?
ago, when the god-king Rama I moved the royal residence
2. Which part of the story is/are entertaining for the
to this side of the Chao Phraya River. writer?

Today, a boat excursion takes visitors on a tour of the old city,


winding down the ―klong canals for a glimpse of the water
dwellers and the ancient edifices, remnants of an era 1. What is the first highlighted word? Why did they go
when Rama I divided his city into three sections: for the there?
Thais, the Chinese and the Indians. 2. Where do these underlined phrases come from?

The best buys of Thai silks, spices and crafts are still at the
riverside markets where one can also produce gold, jade and 1. Where are these best buys seen?
other precious jewelry. 2. What are the products that can be produced
at the riverside market?

Not to be missed are the Temple of the Dawn along the


Chao Phraya, a showcase of Chinese porcelain mosaics, 1. According to the writer, what places do you
and the Temple of the Giant Swing for some of the finest think are indicated in the story that you
murals. Only for strong knees is the Temple of the Golden shouldn’t miss to visit?
Mount, atop a climb of 300 steps, housing one of the 2. What do you think is being highlighted in this
largest bronze buddhas in the world. paragraph? According to the writer, for whose
knees can only climb on top of it?
3. What can be seen in the Temple of Golden Mount?

The Reclining Buddha was shipped from China by King


Rama I, who also built the Wat Pho Temple on a 20-hectare
1. What was shipped from China? Who shipped it?
compound adjacent to the Royal Palace, circa 1782, in the
2. What did the shipper build adjacent to the Royal
2222-old Chinese section.
palace around 1782?

The King had also brought with him excellent samples of


porcelain, which the court artisans used to decorate pagodas 1. What is the highlighted word in this
using their elaborate spires. At the main temple, devotees buy paragraph? Who is the king?
one–inch gold leaf squares which they stick to smaller buddhas 2. What did the king bring? What is its purpose?
3. At the main temple, what do the devotees buy?
as offering to their god. What did they do with it?

Everyday, morning ceremonies are held at an adjacent


1. What are held every day? Where is it held?
temple surrounded by four magnificent monuments: the first
2. What are the four magnificent monuments?
in red built by Rama I; the second in yellow, by Rama II; the
third in green by Rama III; and the fourth in blue, by Rama
IV.

Just as fascinating is the sala tree under which, according to 1. According to a legend, who was born under a sala
legend, Buddha was born. Its pink and red flowers are sweet- tree?
smelling, a contrast to the brown gourd which are the ―fruit 2. What is the smell of the pink and red flowers of the
tree?
―of the sala tree.
3. What do they call the fruit of the sala tree?

To cap a hectic first day, we had dinner at the Baa Thai 1. Where did the writer have for dinner on their first
Restaurant while watching heavily costumed folk dancers day?
from the lowland and highland villages, including favorite 2. Aside from eating, what else did they do?
destinations, like Chiang Mai, the second largest city up north, 3. What is the second largest city up north? What
from whence one can visit the winter palace of the Royal places can be visited there?
Family and the training school for working elephants.

Amazingly, Bangkok is clean, especially the day after


Wednesday, which is ―Clean Up Day according to our guide. 1. What compliment was said by the writer in this
So the sidewalk eateries are relatively sanitary, although paragraph?
foreign visitors are advised to stick to bottled mineral water or 2. What was there to expect every after Wednesday?
soft drinks.

In spite of the colossal traffic jams, no thanks to the


ubiquitous 1. What do the highlighted words mean?
―toktok pedicabs, the air smells cleaner and less polluted
than in Manila. 2. Based on the story, where is less polluted and
smells cleaner?

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