Wat Saket, Thailand

This card arrived as an official few years ago

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The card shows the Golden Mountain (or Phu Khao Thong), one of the Buddhist temples in Bangkok. 

The Wat Saket is a low hill crowned with a gleaming gold chedi. Within, the 58-metre chedi houses a Buddha relic and welcomes worshippers all year round. The temple also hosts an annual temple fair in November, which lasts a week during Loy Krathong.
The temple is now a popular Bangkok tourist attraction and has become one of the symbols of the city.

the stamp is a definitive from 2007, showing Hat Pattaya.

The Temple of Dawn, Thailand

Going over to a different part of the world, a beautiful card from my French postcard fairy....

the card shows The Temple of Dawn, or Wat Arun, which was built in 17th century on the bank of Chao Phraya River. The main feature of Wat Arun is its central prang (Khmer-style tower) which is encrusted with colourful porcelain.This is interpreted as a stupa-like pagoda encrusted with coloured faience.[6] The height is reported by different sources as between 66.8 m and 86 m. The corners are surrounded by four smaller satellite prang. The prang are decorated by seashells and bits of porcelain which had previously been used as ballast by boats coming to Bangkok from China.
The central prang symbolises Mount Meru of the Hindu cosmology. The satellite prang are devoted to the wind god, Phra Phai. The demons (yaksha) at the entranceway to the ubosot are from the Ramakien.

the stamp on the right was issued in 2014, as part of the 3 New Year stamps...the other one was issued in 2010, featuring H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX).

Thank you so much JP!!

Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand's capital....and as the card says "A bird eye view over Bangkok in the evening"....looks really nice.

Did you know that the full ceremonial name of the city given by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, and later edited by King Mongkut, is:

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

It is a combination of two ancient Indian languages, Sanskrit and Pali, and can be translated as: The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reins the reincarnated God, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarm.

Errrm.....I'll stick to Bangkok....

Bangkok, Thailand

I really love this night view of Bangkok...

It shows the famous -Wat Phra Kaew - temple, which is the only temple with no monks.
In English it would be Temple of the Holy Jewel Image or commonly known as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.
It is located on the ground of the Royal Palace in Bangkok and is the most revered Buddhist shrine in Thailand.
Central to the temple is the Emerald Buddha, a dark green statue standing about 2 feet tall. No one is allowed near the statue except the Thai King who conducts rituals at the temple throughout the year.