In 1976 Ayutthaya was declared a historical park and in 1981 it was declared a UNESCO World Herritage site. Click on the map to see the full-sized one.
It was Sunday in the morning that we started our driving trip. From Silom road, it took us only 40 minutes to get to Ayutthaya. The first place we stopped for a visit was Mahathat temple. We missed this place the last time we came.
Next we went to Wat Thammikarat which is not far from Wat Mahathat. It is an old temple but not part of the historical park. It is still in used today. There are some monks in that temple and many stray dogs. I donated some money for them. When we walked in, we saw some cows eating grass in the temple. There was a donation box in front from the yard said to buy a cow that was sending to a slaughterhouse and then they would brought them back to the temple and let them stay there.
See the elephant in the picture above? It was to cast lots. Use the ring finger to lift the elephant for female and use the pinky for male. You will have to do it twice:
1. say in your mind about what you want to have it come true and that if it will really come true you can lift up the elephant
2. use the finger, ring finger for female and pinky for male, to lift the elephant
3. if you can lift it up for the first time then you have to do it again but say it in your mind that if what i said in the 1. will come true, I cannot lift the elephant up this time.
And then see what you will get :)
I never try it though.
The last temple was Wat Chaiwatthanaram. We went only to 3 places cause we have been here once and got many photos already. We came here once again to take photos at where we missed.
Chai Watthanaram is a big old temple by the river. It is part of the Ayutthaya historical park. It was constructed in 1630 and there were 120 sitting Buddha statues along the wall but they were all ruined.
I forgot to tell you that the Ayutthaya City was destructed by Burmese in 1767 and every temples there was also destructed. They burnt the temples for gold and cut the heads of the statues and brought them back to Burma. So you will see a statues without head everywhere.
We spent only half a day in Ayutthaya. We had lunch at a place by the river and then drove back to Bangkok. On the way we stopped at a big market. It is a wholesale place where the retailers come and get goods to sell in a small market, department store or at their own places. You can find various kinds of things for sale there, seafood, fruits, vegetables, flowers, pets, etc.
Once we got to Bangkok, we went to a bookstore for some Thailand travel guide books and maps and did research on the internet for where we would have the next driving trip to :)
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