Temple overload

Temples can be beautuful things. Ornate, colorful, curvy, awe-ispiring, heck, just plain cool most of the time. But after a while of travelling, you kind of get sick of them. It's similar to when I first travelled in Europe. I OD'ed on old churches and museums on my first megavacation back in 2002 and vowed not to spend my trips revolving around museums ever again. Once or twice a trip is nice. Once or twice a day isn't. As I said while roaming through the museums in Florence back then, "Jesus, how many Madonnas with Child can there be?" (Answer: more than you ever could stomach seeing.)
The friend who was with me in Chiang Mai agreed too. When I asked if she wanted to go see any temples after she landed, she said, "Nope. Had enough of them already." We did end up stopping by one, but outside of Angkor Wat, for me, it's been there, done that.
So, here's pretty much my entire outtake of temple shots in Chiang Mai.



Note to family: Does this look like Buddha or Thales or Homer?



In the middle of Chiang Mai.



The view from the window of my room in Chiang Mai, which has nearly as many temples as Bangkok, despite that it has less than 1/40th of the people. And some of the coolest Wats are the older ones that are deteriorating.