Yesterday I spent most of the day getting my visa for Myanmar/Burma and getting enough American dollars for the trip. It wasn't too bad to get the visa. I arrived at around 8:00 am and was the fourth person in-line. The embassy opened at 9:00 and I was out of there before 9:30. I paid extra to get the visa the same day so I didn't have to go there again another day. So I walked around and visited Lumphini Park, something I didn't get to do when I was in Bangkok in 2006.
Last night I saw the biggest snail I have ever seen.
Today, I visited Wat Bang Phra to get a Sak Yank Tattoo from a Buddhist monk, Hwong Pi Phaew. More about him and video of him giving tattoos can be found here. I hired a driver who took me to the Wat, about 30 miles north of Bangkok. After arriving, you buy some incense, flowers and cigarettes (70 Baht) that is a donation to the Wat and then you put money into an envelope for the Monk.
There weren't too many people around. At the end of February there were over 30,000 people there for the annual Tattoo festival.
He gave me two tattoos the first is the Yant Goa Yord. A Yant is a Sacred geometry design incorporating Buddhist psalms and magical formulas that invoke various elements and powers of protection and various blessings.The Buddhist psalms written within and around these yant are know inThai language as a "kata" or "Mantra". It is for protection and good luck. The second is for a gift of the tongue.
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