Buddha and Team Work

The weather has been very nice along the Myanmar (Burma) border in Northern Thailand. We decided to take a little ride and go see how well Daeng's land had been cleared of over growth.

It is about 20 Km to her land. The folks that she had arranged to clear the over growth had done a pretty good job.

We left a bottle of chemicals for them to spray on the ground to help keep the weeds from growing back as fast.

Daeng had bought the land as an investment about six years ago. the house that was on the land fell down before she bought it. Some of the masonry is still left.

She gave the neighbor the 500 TB that was owed on the clearing. she had paid 1000 TB last week when she arranged for the work.

We then headed north from her property to come back to Mae Sai on the north east route. We stopped for coffee on the edge of Mae Sai and we noticed a little truck backed up to a Temple with a huge gold colored Buddha sitting on the truck.

There were maybe 20 men standing around looking at this Buddha. I realized that they were going to take this Buddha off the truck and put it in this tiny Temple.

We hopped on the motorbike and drove over to this area.

As time passed, more men showed up along with a small crane truck.

They rigged rope around this steel Buddha that weighed over a ton (1000 Kg). The crane laid the Buddha horizontally and then picked it up off the truck.

When the truck pulled away the men and crane moved this Buddha into this small Temple a little at a time until Buddha was laying on it's back in the place it would be set up.

Buddha was safe and inside for the night.

This Buddha was made in pieces and then welded together, sanded and finished to a beautiful gold finish.

It was definitely team work.