Tuptim Shrine

Since the Aircraft Graveyard was near the klong taxi route, I decided that I would see other sights along the klong. One fun site I knew of was a fertility shrine to a goddess named Tuptim. This shrine was near the Wireless Road klong taxi stop. It was located behind a luxury hotel and one had to walk through the hotel grounds to get to it. What was unique about this shrine was that devotees left hundreds of wooden penises there. I'm not kidding. There were piles and piles of them. They were of varying sizes, shapes, colors. C***ks everywhere. I thought this would be a fun place to reconnect with.

Getting off the klong taxi at Wireless Road, I immediately saw that things had changed. The hotel was now fenced in and it looked as if it was being renovated. A passerby sensed my confusion and he told me the shrine had been relocated. He walked with me for a bit and then told me where to go. He even told me it was okay to enter even though a sign said no entry. So, I went where he indicated and I was crestfallen when I got there. The shrine had been sanitized. I could count the phalluses on my fingers and toes. It was a shadow of its former self. In short, Tuptim had been castrated.

A guard came up to me and told me I could not return from where I came and he pointed to an alternative exit that would cut me off from the klong taxi. Ugh. That spoiled my lunch plan which was to seek out an old haunt at Pratunam.

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