Visiting the Ancient City of Ayutthaya. Wat Fun!

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  Ayutthaya, Thailand
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Hi Everybody-

Please checkout the pictures from this weekend and see Wat fun we had (Wat means "temple" in Thai). Ayutthaya is about 1 1/2 hours north of Bangkok and was once the capital of Siam (Thailand) from the 13th to the 17th century. It is known as the "Ancient City" and has an unbelievable amount of temples. I could go into pages and pages describing these temples and their history and so on, but I realize that we are History majors so we dig this stuff, but that doesnt mean that everyone else does. SO, I added some brief descriptions to each picture but thats about all Im going to do. If you are interested in learning more about the ruins at Ayutthaya please feel free to email us. It was a very fun day and really cool to see the history of a people that we currently live amongst. Thanks for reading!

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Picture of our Tuk-Tuk	The Mrs. in our sardine can AKA Tuk-Tuk	Yours truly	Wat Yai Chaya Mongkol
Massive Reclining Buddha at Wat Yai Chaya	Picture of the head with a Stupa in the back	Panoramic View of Reclining Buddha	Main Buddha for visitors to meditate at
More Buddhist meditators	The main Stupa or Chedi at the Wat	Another view	Cool shot of the main temple
Video Panaroma of Wat Yai Chaya	View from the top of the main Chedi	On the backside. A garden with a marble statue	Close-up of the marble statue
Bookended by some Buddhist Statues	Wat Phra Mahathat	A Buddha head sculpture overcome by roots	Long view of the Buddhist head in the tree
Stupas at Wat Phra Mahathat	More ruins at Wat Phra Mahathat	More ruins at Mahathat	More ruins
Cool looking Stupas at Mahathat	More shots of three right next to eachother	More shots of three right next to eachother	Meditators outside Viharn Phra Mongkhon Bophit
The Wat is famous because of the HUGE Buddha	Far away view of the meditators in front of it	Close-up of the Buddha image	Side view and its pedestal
Offering money to the Wat is very common	Wat Phra Sri Sanphet	Chedi Chedi Bang Bang	Lauren looking Chedi
Close up shot	Another close up with handsomeness in the middle	Trying to get all 3 in a picture	Better attempt
Wat Phu Kao Thong	Ground view of the Wat	Water Buffalo!	It took Lauren 3 hours to walk up the steps
Lauren at the top! Wheres a slinky when you need	Close up	More long shots	What goes up must come down
Couldnt stop taking pictures of it. Its so big!	Glad im not the only one with a huge...rooster	Wat Chai Watthanaram	This place was my favorite
Picture of the grounds	Picture from the back entrance	Closer shot of the back entrance and main Chedi	The main Chedi. It was huge
Cool shot of the main Chedi at Watthanaram	I made it to the top! Big Boy!	Very peaceful place	Picture from the top of the Wat
Another shot from the top of the main Chedi	View from the front of Wat Chai Watthanaram	A Buddhist statue overlooks the Wat and the river	Wide view of the front of the Wat complex
Video panorama of the Wat	One last shot before we left. I really liked	Had to take another. It was sunny and the colors	Main square in the downtown of Ayuttaya city

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