Nakkorn Si Thammasat

For work, I was involved in a Religious leaders peace exchange program. We got to go to Nakkorn Si Thammasat, in southern Thailand, visit various religious sites (Buddhist and Muslim) and sit in on discussion work-shops. The idea was to have Thai religious leaders who are dealing with conflict situations in the south learn from Sri Lankans who have been negotiating these realities for a long time, as a method of ethnic/religious conflict resolution (exactly what I've wanted to work on, eh guys???)

Nakkorn Si Thammasat is a centre of religious diversity, with Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic and Christian communities represented here. It was chosen as a site to visit because of its history of religious tolerance.

We visited an Islamic private boarding school (for both boys and girls). Ya...we were causing a bit of a stir in the boy's quarters. The boy next to be seems a bit fixated on something....heeya!

Hey R. Turvey....these flowers were offerred for you. The cloth in the background is made up of hundreds of seperate swaths, some dozens of meters long, that women take as a (Buddhist) offerring to wrap around the temple