Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Ayutthaya

The second day in thailand, i'm heading to the north of bangkok with a hired 4 wheel drive taxi. The kingdom of ayutthaya, commonly known as the ancient city in thailand. Just about more than an hour ride using the highway towards the north of bangkok.






















Begin with the bang pa in summer palace that is situated not far from ayutthaya. The entrance fee costs 100 baht (rm10) . It is said that it was build by King Chulalongkorn with a touch of european and classical thai architecture.






















It is easily to recognise that this palace uses european architecture such as the statue in this photo.





















After that, ayutthaya, here we come. I got really excited when i heard it's an ancient city. My first thought is that this city gonna be fill with few centuries old building and artefacts. Well, when i am there, all i can say is HUMONGOUS! It is really an ancient city with ancient architecture!
















Well, part of the city are ruined and destroy. Maybe it's due to corrosion due to acid rain. Well, it is sad to see some statue of buddha's head or stolen by those desperate thieves. Probably the quality of artwork and the sculpture made by the ancient people are extremely fine and rare to be seen. Those stolen artefacts may costs till few hundred thousand baht.
















One of the most perfect and amazing statue i had found there. At least with its head still attached to the body, it looks wonderful. I wonder how does it really looks like back few centuries ago.





















One of the sleeping buddha in ayutthaya.














Maintaining the ancient city and the artefacts means preserving the culture that had been introduced by their ancestors centuries ago. Therefore, the ancient culture will not be extinct and will be always appreciate by the younger generation.








Every pieces that is left

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

where is your chatbox la man??hahaah

munkin said...

lol...lazy to put lar. hehe...will put it later on. take care dude!

Anonymous said...

ok la ok la...you take care too dude!! XD

munkin said...

haha..u too!