Looking forward to seeing the morning alms giving, a beautiful cultural experience, Antony, (the Auzzie) and I got up at the crack of dawn (5am to be exact) and wandered over to the main street to get a good seat. Turns out, alms giving is at 6:30am not 5:30am, thanks guesthouse clerk. An hour later, nearly 200 monks from different wats around the city (some as young as 8 or 9) dressed in beautiful orange robes walked down the street to collect the offerings. I had been told that they collect it and then when they get back to the wats they dish it out and eat it as one of their two meal a day. I now have a feeling they must get some other food as well because I find it hard to believe that monks live off sticky rice and candy bars, though this may be the dream diet of any 9 year old boy lol. Below is a photo of a group of them heading back to their Wat.
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