Saturday, May 14, 2011

Auyatthaya, the ancient city...

I took a study break one Friday to make a day trip up to Auyatthaya.  I went up with two friends, a girl I met in the immigration office, Sophie, and her friend Sophie :)

We left early one morning on the train, a local train which really is an experience! All locals except us and CONSTANT sellers coming up and down the isle... you would think after the 3rd or 4th walk through they'd realise that no one wanted their food! or those who did would have bought it already!  
When we arrived we crossed the street and rented bikes for the day to bike around the ruins and temples. 

We had a beautiful setting with a large group of monks visiting the first temple at the same time as us. Appeared to be a school group of young monks. 
Unfortunatly about 1h after our arrival and right in the middle of one of our temple tours it started to torrential down pour!  We got back on our bikes and rushed to find a restaurant for lunch! Luckily by the time we finished lunch not only had it stopped raining but the sun had also dried off the roads. 

So with the Buddha in the tree... well we didnt know at the time but our first picture had us standing, a guard came over and started yelling at us for "standing over the Buddha" we couldnt figure out what he meant and then we realised we couldnt stand beside it we had to squat to take the picture... ooops!



This is apparently one of the biggest in Thailand.  



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