{"id":263,"date":"2015-11-27T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2015-11-27T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:01:46","slug":"exploring-phuket-big-buddha-wat-chalong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Phuket: Big Buddha, Wat Chalong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We arranged a Phuket afternoon tour from www.phukettravelcompany.com. The first stop was a look out point called Kata viewpoint:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2439.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2439.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2440.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2440.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter, we headed towards another view point called Cape Promthep:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2455.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2455.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe then visited a baby elephant:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2442.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2442.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter, we visited the biggest Buddha statue in Thailand (25m x 40m):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2461.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2461.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2465.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2465.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe last stop we did with our tour was Wat Chalong. The most interesting part of this temple is that is has the tooth of the Buddha from 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2492.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2492.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2484.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2484.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arranged a Phuket afternoon tour from www.phukettravelcompany.com. The first stop was a look out point called Kata viewpoint: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; After, we headed towards another view point called Cape Promthep: &nbsp;&nbsp; We then visited a baby elephant: &nbsp;&nbsp; After, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6,80,79,78,11,57,82,81],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-2015","tag-asia2015","tag-big-buddha","tag-cape-promthep","tag-kata-viewpoint","tag-phuket","tag-thailand","tag-tour","tag-wat-chalong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}