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Credit: User:Markalexander100
A view inside a
songthaew (Thai สองแถว, literally "two rows"), a kind of passenger vehicle in Thailand. It takes its name from the two bench seats fixed along either side of the back of the truck.
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Photograph credit: BerryJ Wat Arun is a
Buddhist temple in
Bangkok, Thailand. The temple derives its name from the Hindu god
Aruna. This photograph shows the sculptures of two mythical giant demons, Thotsakan (green-skinned) and Sahatsadecha (white-skinned), guarding the eastern gate of the temple's
ordination hall, a building designated for the performance of
upasampadā, the Buddhist ordination ritual, and other ritual ceremonies. The entrance of the ordination hall has a roof with a central spire, decorated in coloured
ceramic and
stucco and sheathed in coloured china.