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The Park Also Houses A 15 Meter Tall Buddha Statue

This Big Lord Buddha Statue At Putthomonthon Is Over 15 Meters High

Tall Buddha Statue At Putthomonthon, Nakhon Pathom

The tall Buddha statue in the above image is situated in the Nakhon Pathom province of Thailand. The imposing Buddha statue is almost 16 meters high and is surrounded by around 400 square meters of gardens and parks. The place is called Putthomonthon and is not very far from Bangkok. If you would like to see this place on your visit to Thailand, keep aside around 3 to 4 hours for the travel and touring of the Putthomonthon park.

The Kaisilver team took a day off to visit the Putthomonthon Lord Buddha statue. The peace and calm of the lawns in the Putthomonthon parks are impressive. Walk towards the center of the park near the tall Buddha statue and you will not hear the vehicles moving in the surrounding streets. The day was cloudy and the clouds formed a spectacular background for the big Buddha statue. We have put up more and larged images on the website at http://www.leisure.food-recipe-cooking.com/puthamonthon-nakhon-pathom-thailand-01-pm.htm/

History Fails To Recognize Peridot

Historically many blunders have been made regarding identifying various gemstones. You could ofcourse understand the issue as gemological knowledge was either absent or in it’s infancy during that time. The British plundered nations and exploited it’s people. When doing this in Asia, the royals looted precious gems from nations like India. Some of these gems procured through supression and bloodshed made their way to the British crown. While these gems are even today proudly (shamelessly?) worn by the royals, some of the were wrongly identified. Red spinels and rubelite were sometimes classified as rubies!.

Green beryl is popularly known as emerald, at one time every green gem was classified as an emerald. Cleopatra was a great fan of emeralds, history tells us that. Her jewelry collection included some fascinating emerald gem stone jewels. However as knowledge about gems grew and the science of gemology developed, it was found that many of the so called ‘emeralds’ in her collection were infact peridot. It is widely agreed that this was an honest mistake made by her jeweler. Intentional fraud could ofcourse result in the death sentence in those days.

The www.directstones.com website has more interesting and useful information at http://www.directstones.com/gemstone-library-ly-01.htm If you are interested in the specific story about peridots being mistaken for emeralds, check it out at http://www.directstones.com/emerald-gemstones-ly-01.htm