Thai Cultural center

In many respects you have to look at the Thai cultural center like the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. It is a place for the performing arts in Thailand hence the name Thai Cultural center. It also has a lot of decorations and even a small hall of antiquities from the Thai people's colorful past. However for more real information on the indigenous culture, the museums and of course the people themselves are funds of knowledge.

Some of the pictures here are of the outbuildings of the cultural center, a pond that was being de-scummed and restocked by the yellow shirt brigade (yellow is the color of the Kings birth- day) for the king's visit, and a small koi pond with highly allergic fish being separated in plastic bags so they didn't catch something from the humans ( ok ok that wasn't the reason but it was a good guess! )

The center was touting the farewell performance of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa a singer of world renown - yet largely unknown out of operatic circles.