We got up early to watch the alms giving to monks which takes place every day around 6.30am. Monks scurry out of wats and assemble to walk around a circular route accepting alms from the local people, mainly handfuls of rice, placed carefully into the monk’s begging bowls. It has become a draw for tourists, and the sellers who line up to sell them rice or bananas ‘for monk, for monk’. There were so many tourists teating the whole thing as a photo opportunity, we were wondering if any of the locals still took part. Then as we followed the monks route back to our guesthouse we saw our very own guest house lady on the corner of the street giving alms. She was pleased to see us and told us she did this every day.