Bangkok, Thailand - December 2004 The Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok - Wat Phra Kaew - lies at the centre of the city, within the grounds of

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Bangkok, Thailand - December 2004 The Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok - Wat Phra Kaew - lies at the centre of the city, within the grounds of the Royal Palace of the Kings of Thailand. The tiny Buddha it houses - probably jade rather than Emerald - is an object of great antiquity on which the safety of a city or nation is said to depend. Naturally, the grounds are protected by innumerable bad-boy demons such as these

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