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Home » News from Thailand » Another fuss over photo of tourists at temple
Another fuss over photo of tourists at temple
A couple from Serbia once again caused a stir. The above photo went viral on social media and Thai people think it's inappropriate.
Yesterday, Nardica Curcin, 31, and her traveling companion Vladimir Veizovic, 31, were each fined 5.000 baht for an indecent photo taken on the wall of the ubosothal at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, better known as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.
The couple said yesterday at the tourist police office at Suvarnabhumi airport that they did not realize that their behavior was offensive or against the law. Indecent and lewd conduct in public is prohibited under Section 388 of the Thai Penal Code.
The tourist police has promised to provide even more information to tourists about undesirable behavior during visits to temples and historical sites.
Source: Bangkok Post – Photo: Social Media
In this case I can understand this couple.
If you're out of the world or you know a country's sensibilities, like all of us at Thailand Blog, then it goes without saying, but if you're a bit more unworldly or absent-minded then the photo at the top isn't so offensive after all.
Those people are on vacation and yet they do not carry out any consciously reprehensible acts…
if you go to a foreign country with a completely different culture and religion, you first have to inquire about the customs of the country, tourists think they can do anything, for me the fine can be higher
Dear Ulrich, it is precisely these customs and prohibitions, which are well known to many of these media madmen, that give the kick to take a picture there.
Compared to the normal thinking, these people often spend all day taking pictures in places where it is not good or even dangerous.
With the photos they take, which they sickly regard as cool, they deliberately try to form a contrast between what should be and what is actually absurd.
A new crazy fashion where they also think they are brave.
I live in Thailand for 14 y and adapt.
Have seen many things happen here that cannot be tolerated.
Rude tourists with bare feet on the table. If you come to Thailand you should actually know more than where the bars are. I know Belgians who drive their mopeds drunk. Also throw cigarette butts on the floor. See in restaurants Russians full plates with leave food..
Men groping and kissing women on the street.
They have little respect.
Every three meters there are signs that make it clear that you are not allowed to sit there…
Never know anything. Online 24 hours a day with their smartphone, but Googling the local dos and donts for 2 minutes is apparently too much to ask.
Many think they are in Disneyland…
Wouldn't the police be better off trying to find the dealer who sold the Yaba to the driver of that double-decker bus that crashed the day before yesterday, killing 18 people.
The bus driver was under the influence of drugs.
Jan Beute.
Dear JanBeute,
Of course I completely agree with you about the traffic measures and finding the drug seller (although of course the driver consumed it himself), but these things are separate. The Thai are hurt when they see these kinds of photos and it is also regulated by law that it is not allowed, although a fine of THB 5000 also seems a bit absurd to punish a “naive” tourist.
What surprised me the most is that she was allowed in with a top.
I myself already had a blouse ready to put over the top and before I had it on there were already dozens of people who pointed out to me that I couldn't go in like this, I didn't intend to.
Not even slippers were accepted. So they went in the bag to exchange.
Embrace and respect the customs of a country. We were prepared for everything, but of course those people didn't know that.
I think the photo is not too bad except the split even covers a large part of the legs.
It is also of course all a bit double for a tourist in the evenings to see Thai ladies half naked in eg Pattaya, Phuket, soi nana etc. walking past as if it is normal in Thailand.
And in other places there are suddenly enormous regulations in terms of clothing, I think that the Thai themselves should also provide better information about which item of clothing is customary at which location.
Enter the temples nicely dressed to view murals of women with bare breasts, partying and drunk people and even couples making love.
In the Isan even naked women, hanging from the Nariphon tree and naked women in the palace where the Buddha says goodbye to his wife and son to seek the truth.
Here is an image of the Buddha bidding farewell to his concubines: it leaves nothing to the imagination,
https://www.thailandblog.nl/cultuur/bijzondere-muurschilderingen-op-isaanse-tempelgebouwen-deel-2/