Wat Lang Phu Supha

By coincidence I told my massage lady - Aum - that I had visited this temple 2 km nw of Wat Chalong. She told me then that the eldest Monk in Thailand - Pra Lang Phu Supha - is receiving his visitors here. In September 2008 he will be 114 years old. I promised to visit him, and so I did. 

It started in the Temple where the monks recieved food from the visitors. It was a beatiful ceremony where the monks and the 50 visitors (in chorus) were keeping a dialogue in about 10 minutes:

The majority among the visitors were women. Several of them wanted me to sit down with them, which I denied since I can not sit like them in lotus position. These two very nice ladies - Ou och Oy - asked me why I was at this place and when I told them I wanted to meet with Pra Supha, they brought me to their nice aunt - Sinny. She then took care of me and showed me to the old monks house. Below Ou and Oy in front of his house:

Now we have taken seats on the floor waiting for Pra Supha to finish his lunch in a neighbouring room separated from us by coloured glaas doors and curtains. A large bowl stands on the floor. They fill it with small flowers and coins: 

Now the curtains are moved aside and we can see the old monk lieing in a bed with his head on a big pink cushion:

This is one of the visitors - Mari (means jasmin in Thai). She told me she has a restaurant in Kata near the fire station:

When the doors open the visitors may kneel down on this prayer rug and talk to Pra Supha, which I was prepared to do, but I realized it should be nothing but a monologue:

The visitors now started singing a very beautiful song, which touched me deep in my heart:

And here Sinny is performing music on some kind of an instrument sounding like a trumpet and a small drum. This was ended by a terrible strong noice like an air-raid warning:

Sinny is a trainer in Raja Yoga and Hermit (=eremit) Stretching.

The surrounding to this Temple is very beautiful: 

After my visit to Pra Supha I continued up in the mountings and found a rubber plantation. Here I met Sopha, Boin and Jo, working on the plantation. Jo who talks a very good English told me they were from Burma and that he had been studying at a university - Mathematics and Physics: