We continued our city highlights tour, including Wat Po temple, which houses the 120-foot-long Reclining Buddha.

We hopped aboard a long-nose boat—a long, narrow wooden boat with a pivoting truck motor and a long, straight drive shaft for a propeller in the stern; the boatman controls the boat by swiveling the whole thing around. We toured along the Mae Nam Chao Phra River, visiting the Wat Arun temple and the Royal Barges National Museum which houses the long, exquisitely decorated barges that carry the King (and other dignitaries) on special occasions, like his birthday.

Then we headed through a maze of canals...

...to a private home, where we were given Thai cooking lessons and treated to a wonderful home-cooked lunch.