If there is one thing I understand the least at the Grand Palace temple, it's the Angkor Wat miniature. No matter how much I stretch my imagination, I have no idea why it's here. They say King Rama IV, the real-life protagonist of the movie 'The King and I', had it built in the 1800s, but I don't know if he built it out of envy or received it as a gift. Regardless of my personal confusion, it boasts incredible detail.
Even the places that are hard to see are expressed in fine detail. People say it's not as good as Japan, the master of miniature sculptures, but even looking closely, it doesn't feel like it was done carelessly.This building is Phra Viharn Yot. It houses numerous Buddha statues and is famous for the beautiful carvings in front of the altar where they sit, but entry was restricted so I couldn't see it.A well-proportioned chicken god. I don't know its name, but it just keeps making me think of chicken.This is the royal library, 'Ho Phra Monthian Tham'. Endless murals are painted on the walls. I'm always surprised by how incredibly delicate Thai murals are. Plus, they're painted in a way that's easy to understand, so you can grasp the story just by glancing at them.If you look at the people and ghosts one by one, you can see that they are detailed and each figure is drawn slightly differently. There are literally tens of thousands of figures painted, and it's amazing how they drew them without just copying and pasting.Since these are paintings about Buddhism and history, there are also many gruesome scenes. The gruesome parts are drawn with so much detail that it almost feels like too much.Since it's a library, I was looking forward to seeing what ancient books looked like, but the inside was closed to the public, so I just got exhausted from the heat and laid down.
