Wat Phra Ram Ayutthaya

From what I could see I had two options after Kanchanaburi; either head back to Bangkok and live the city life for four days or continue exploring the smaller and lesser known parts of central Thailand. Not wanting a repeat of the experiences I had from the last city I stayed in I opted to carry on moving, my flight to Seoul being the main goal and …

Nuestro segundo dia de viaje decidimos contratar un taxi para llevarnos a Ayuttaya en vez de tomar el tren como teniamos planeado originalmente. En el fin fue una buena decision, un poco mas cara que la primera pero nos ahorro un par de horas y nos dio bastante comodidad y flexibilidad para hacer las cosas. Comenzamos por un wat que todavia estaba …

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Time for another update :)

So after a trip that lasted around 20 hours..(with a brief 4 hour stop in Bangkok), I arrived in the ancient city of Ayutthaya which used to be the capital of the Kingdom of Thailand (formerly Siam). In 1700 the city used to have over 1 million inhabitants, now it has around 50,000 people.< …

... . Wat Mahathat, ses temples et ses superbes toilettes :) Serieusement, les temples etaient magnifques et avelo, c'est encore mieux. Le WAT Phra Ram etait tres bien. Juste a cote, il y avait un petit resto. Avec Fred et Emily, mes compagnons de voyage ...

... to see the city's many Buddhist Temples, or Wats.  We headed to the central area of the old city to visit Wat Phra Ram. The highlight here is a Buddha head almost completely enveloped in tree roots (see photo). There are also many seated Buddhas ...

... and 12 smaller temples on each side, most leaning crazily and crumbling. The next stop on our bicycle tour of Ayutthaya was Wat Phra Ram, a particularly impressive tower surrounded by smaller towers; a bit of a theme when it comes to Ayutthayan temple ...

... Wat Phra Si Sanpet which had three massive stuppas, Wihaan Mongkhon Bophit which is a restored 17m high sitting bronze Buddha, Wat Phra Mahatrat which s most famous for a Buddha head embedded in a tree, Wat Thammikarat which had lots of lion sculptures ...

... in the afternoon and we decided to visit one more ruin as it was on the way back to our guesthouse anyway – Wat Phra Ram. This was probably the least impressive ruin we visited today, but still worth taking a look. It contained many of the ...

... Tour de France. Some of the sights we managed to take in amongst others were the Ancient Palace, Phra Phra Si Sanphet, Wat Phra Ram, Wat Lokayasutharam (a massive laying Buddha), Wat Phu Khao Thong and the King Naresuan Monument. Slightly more ...

... 2 hours to wander around the site, which was a bit too much time really. Anyway, I then wandered out and found Wat Phra Ram, which is an old Khmer style praang which is still in good condition. I then checked out the various little bridges spanning the ...

... nothing to change my mind. I'm terrified that I'm going to get taken out by a truck,taxi or moped at any moment. Wat Phra Ram first, big. Apparently sacked by the Burmese. . . . I would cast the aspersion the the leaning chedis and prangs rather suggest ...

... was just nice to wander around.  Nearby were two other temples, Wikan Phra Mongkhon with its huge 16m high bronze Buddha, and Wat Phra Ram. And not being templed out by this stage, in the evening we went on a boat tour to see three more!  It ...

... ) for all temples or pick and choose three to pay and enter while doing a couple of drive bys. One drive by is Wat Phra Ram, which has a very chracteristic Khmer style prang (tower) to mark the cremation sight of an earlier king in the 14th ...