Around the World with Atomic Tony Tiki - Tiki Travel

A atomictonytiki Tiki Socialite Spain Joined: May 14, 2002 Posts: 1322	A atomictonytiki Posted posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 12:44 AM AYUTHAYA So we left Bangkok and headed to look at the famous ruins of Ayuthaya, and one evening taking the sunset cruise around the city we stopped at Wat Chai Wattanram and spotted these two tiki mugs being used as votive offering holders. No makers marks or bar logo's, but nice to see them. NONG KHAI (or as i calls it NONG-HOLE) The lonely planet calls it a sleepy little town by the sluggish Mekong, what it doesn't mention it also elderly English sex tourist retirement village or a dodgy cowboy boarder town. Beside that outside of town a scant four kilometers on a bicycle, across a motorway in the blazing sun is the wonderful Sala Kaew Ku Sculpture Park. Its like Jim Jones was Walt Disney and into Hindu & Buddhist mythology, in the land of the giants. Built on the command of a sex avoiding vegan shaman, who was later to be arrested for home invasion, kidnapping, threatening behavior with weapons, insulting Buddhism and the serious charge of defacing the image of the king (I don't know whether he pooped on the kings portrait or licked a stamp, but in Thailand the punishment is as severe for both). His mummified corpse is on display in the temple attached to the park but a pack of wild dogs guards the entrance (I'm not kidding) so we just walked around. Can you spot my wife in this picture, yes that her the white spot at the bottom, Jill's five foot and a half so that gives you an idea of how stupidly big these statues are. This statue represents the cult leader, he is the white elephant being persecuted by the horny yapping dogs. Horny yapping dogs playing poker and driving cars. Finally if your thinking I'd like to build a giant Tiki using that method, then this unfinished statue can give you a clue to the construction. Lots of bricks, piles of re-bar and pile on the concrete, anyone can do it, the people who built this park had no construction knowledge before they started, just a dream, a twisted snarling bug-shit crazy dream. [ Edited by: atomictonytiki 2008-09-14 05:16 ]

AYUTHAYA

So we left Bangkok and headed to look at the famous ruins of Ayuthaya, and one evening taking the sunset cruise around the city we stopped at **Wat Chai Wattanram
** and spotted these two tiki mugs being used as votive offering holders. No makers marks or bar logo's, but nice to see them.

NONG KHAI (or as i calls it NONG-HOLE)

The lonely planet calls it a sleepy little town by the sluggish Mekong, what it doesn't mention it also elderly English sex tourist retirement village or a dodgy cowboy boarder town. Beside that outside of town a scant four kilometers on a bicycle, across a motorway in the blazing sun is the wonderful ** Sala Kaew Ku Sculpture Park. ** Its like Jim Jones was Walt Disney and into Hindu & Buddhist mythology, in the land of the giants.

Built on the command of a sex avoiding vegan shaman, who was later to be arrested for home invasion, kidnapping, threatening behavior with weapons, insulting Buddhism and the serious charge of defacing the image of the king (I don't know whether he pooped on the kings portrait or licked a stamp, but in Thailand the punishment is as severe for both). His mummified corpse is on display in the temple attached to the park but a pack of wild dogs guards the entrance (I'm not kidding) so we just walked around.

Can you spot my wife in this picture, yes that her the white spot at the bottom, Jill's five foot and a half so that gives you an idea of how stupidly big these statues are.

This statue represents the cult leader, he is the white elephant being persecuted by the horny yapping dogs.

Horny yapping dogs playing poker and driving cars.

Finally if your thinking I'd like to build a giant Tiki using that method, then this unfinished statue can give you a clue to the construction. Lots of bricks, piles of re-bar and pile on the concrete, anyone can do it, the people who built this park had no construction knowledge before they started, just a dream, a twisted snarling bug-shit crazy dream.

[ Edited by: atomictonytiki 2008-09-14 05:16 ]

Post #379668 by atomictonytiki on Mon, May 12, 2008 12:44 AM