The Green Phraprang of Wat Arun on St. Patrick's day

Today, Mar 17 in Bangkok, Wat Arun or the temple of dawn was illuminated with green light on Ireland's National Day (St. Patrick's day). It is a part of the Global Greening Programme 2021.

We rode bicycles from Bangkok downtown to Chaopraya river. We crossed the river at Phra Phutta Yod Fah memorial bridge around 7PM. It was already dark. I saw Wat Arun was already illuminated from the distance. It was green.

This cycling route to Wat Arun is not our first time, but it is the first at night we rode this route. It looks safe though it was dark along the river. We decided to ride along the river via Santa Cruz Church and Wat Kanlayanamitr.

First we stopped at Santa Cruz Church and took pictures. I found one foreigner took video around. Maybe he is a blogger.

The next stop was Wat Kanlayanamitr. One lady jogged, one man rode a bicycle around the temple. I also saw the same vlogger I met at Santa Cruz church. The temple is so beautiful, different from day time.

We go to Wat Arun via Arun Amarin road. We know there there is a cross over that we can see the big Phra Prang of Wat Arun, so we went there.

We chose to go inside Wat Arun from the path that pass the Royal Thai Navy base. The scenery of the Royal Navy base's gate and green Phra Prang looks nice.

OK. We reached Wat Arun's entrance, parked bicycles at the parking lot then walked into the temple.

The small gate was open. Usually this area is close at night.

There were many people inside, but not crowded.

We walked around, took pictures. Then walked to the front gate which near the river side.

We went outside to the garden near the Chaopraya river to find good location for photos.

We decided to go to the opposite side of the river. We rode bicycles back to the bridge we came. Went to Wat Pho area, and went inside Soi Pratunokyoong which there is a new pier for ferry. The place is still in construction but there were many people there, mostly took photos of Wat Arun.

The view from this side is great. There is a sign "Global Greening Programme 2021" which nobody pays attention to it. Most people enjoyed taking photos of green light illuminated Phra Prang of Wat Arun.