The Chinese Ballast, Pagodas, Giants and Rockeries
• At Wat Pho there are numerous Chinese stone or cement rock statues. These came to Thailand from China as ballast. The main categories are; Lan Than, or the rock giants holding weapons and dressed in Chinese opera style costumes, Chinese giants in European clothes [ 4 pairs of Marco Polo ], political noblemen, Chinese monks, Chinese ladies, Philosophers, animals, etc.