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Bangkok Lotus

Bangkok SilentSunday

I'm refreshing my old Bangkok travel guide and found this photo from around 2011 of a pretty lotus blossom at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. The flower is in a garden behind the temple courtyard that most people don't know is there.

A lotus blossom growing in a decorative bowl outside Bangkok's Temple of the Emerald Buddha
Lotus

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