After lunch, the coffin was put on an elaborate cart and taken the short distance to the crematorium. Here everyone took part in a procession three times around the crematorium. Normally at temples you walk around the chapel clockwise. But for funerals you go anti-clockwise. The cremation ceremony itself starts in about 2 hours.
All this past week I have been attending 7 chanting sessions at the funeral of the owner of my school. She would have been 99 next week. Today is the day of the cremation. The day started with more chanting and the offering of food to both the deceased and the monks.
This is a useful sign as it tells you that the place that you are looking for is 50 meters away. In Thai you would read this as “haa-sib met”.
เมตร (met)
In Thai this sign reads as “sam tung neung roi baht”. The word “tung” with short “oo” sound, means “bag”. It is also the classifier for bags. The common word for a bag is “gra-bpao”.
ถุง (tung)
I saw this sign at a temple yesterday. There were a row of toilets but on one door there was this sign. It says “hong nam phra ajarn”. Members of the public cannot use it as it is for the monks. “Phra Ajarn” is a teaching monk.
This is a small riverside market at Wat Nimmanoradi In Bang Wa, Thonburi. It is on Khlong Phasi Charoen which goes from Wat Paknam in Bangkok to Samut Sakhon by the sea. This is a quiet Thai market with no tourists.
better than KFC and McDonalds lol but the name... 
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