Chip the glasses and crack the plates...

...that's what Bilbo Baggins hates! But I think old Bilbo would have enjoyed this temple on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. Built in the early 1800's, it is completely decorated in ceramic dishes and bits of pottery.

The dishes and fragments were thrown overboard by Chinese traders who used it as ballast in their sailing ships when they came up the river beginning in the 1600's.

We were allowed to climb all over it.

Good place for a picnic.