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Ayutthaya
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Thai
Buddha
Thai
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Ayutthaya day tour, Ayutthaya
tour, Ayutthaya tours, Thai
Buddha, Thailand must see,
Ayutthaya Trip, Ayutthaya river
cruise, day trips from Bangkok.
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- A typical Ayutthaya Trip starts in Bangkok at
the Hua Lamphong train
station.
Forget
all other options since
you will just get stuck in
Bangkok traffic and spend
half of your time there. Hop
on the train to the north
and have a interesting view
into the rural live in
Thailand beyond the
outskirts of Bangkok.
According to the season
there are farmers planting
rice, maybe harvesting,
water buffaloes with huge
headgear laze around and
kids are playing in the
ponds. The trip Bangkok
Ayutthaya by train takes
only about 90 minutes and
Ayutthaya train station is
almost beside the river
channel around the island
with the old town.
Outside the train station
are several tuk-tuk waiting.
If you are only one or two
ignore them since they will
try to cheat you anyway and
claiming commission from any
place they bring you, which
finally you have to pay. The
best is cross the road and
there are the “motocyc” taxi
easily fitting two pax, they
bring you anywhere within
the old town and new town
for around up to Baht 50,-.
Since
you probably are first time
in the city the best is
before you take a ride walk
to the nearby Ayudhya
Riverside Hotel and ask for
a map they have a very good
and simple map. If you are
hungry now or later use
their floating restaurant
with a splendid view over
the river and the river
traffic. An alternative
would be to tell the
motorbike guy to bring you
to the Tourist Information
Center.
To get a right
orientation do an Ayutthaya
cruise as a starter, the
long tail boats are waiting
at different locations. The
best is tell the motorbike
guy to get you to
Chantharakasem National
Museum, which is only about
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minutes ride, now tour this
small museum. The place give
a good insight into the
living of royalty at that
time and plenty of items are
on display including old
Buddha artifacts, old
weapons and in the center of
the place is a watchtower
with a excellent view over
the area, the river and the
channels, the historical
park show more temples and
artifacts than the
historical Park
Sukhothai.
After leaving this small
Ayutthaya
museum
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Ayutthaya tours by elephant ride
Ayutthaya temples at Wat Phra Si Sanphet 1448 A.D. is located in the Royal Palace built during the reign of King Trailok. The temple enshrined a important Buddha sculpture called Phra Sisanphet. The temple was used for royal ceremonies and storing royal relicts. |
just across the street is a pier with plenty of longtail boats waiting to take you on a
- Ayutthaya cruise
around the island. It costs around Baht 600,- for about one hour. That’s probably the best starter, don’t use the bigger boats (right picture) mainly used by the Ayutthaya tours companies since they really only dash through the water with high speed leaving you no time to make some pictures since its very shaky with this speed.
To give you an idea what you will see browse the Ayutthaya photos below they are from that cruise. After you did the river cruise take again a bike taxi to one of the great Ayutthaya temples, that's Wat Phra Si Sanphet, a very impressive temple ground with 3 chedi still standing and some Buddha statues plus newer Wat construction with a huge golden Buddha inside. People are continuously glue gold leaves onto smaller statues. Ayutthaya temples, Wat Phra Si Sanphet is part of the Ayutthaya historical park and a real “Thailand must see”.
Closely is Wat Mahathat with the incredible Buddha head almost swallowed by a huge tree, its somehow similar to the nature swallowing parts of the temples at Angkor. Both Wats and most other Ayutthaya |
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Wat Mahathat Buddha Head in Tree |
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Thai
Buddha
at
Wat
Lokayasutharam |
temples have been destroyed by
the
Burmese
army
when
they
sacked
Ayutthaya
in 1756.
- Unfortunately they did a lot of damage
to the
old
Ayutthaya
temples
and
most are only exotic ruins
now. But there is a way out to get a more or less clear picture and this is by visiting
the
ancient
palace
in the
area of
Wat
Worapoh
and Wat
Worachettharam,
probably
the most
visual
striking
is
panorama
is Wat Lokayasutharam
with the
huge
reclining
Thai
Buddah
Wat
Lokayasutharam
and the
other
temples
around
are totally intact and have somehow similar layouts and an additional attraction, a 37 meters long and 8 meters high reclining Buddha sculpture called Phre Bhuddhasaiyart.
Constructed
with
bricks
in the
style of
the
middle
Ayutthaya
period.
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- Wat Yai Chai Mongkol
from 1357 A.D.
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Wat Yai Chai
Mongkol Buddha |
Wat Yai Chai
Mongkol is
at the south
east. The huge
and tall chedi
is a landmark
visible already
from a further
distance it was
built under King
U-Thong in 1357
for group of
monks who
returned from
Ceylon, today
Sri Lanka, after
studying there.
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Wat Yai Chai
Mongkol |
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