Photos: Ayuthaya, Thailand, the North-east route.
A temple on the outside of the moat. This is where my keys should have been found if there wasn’t a huge black market for stolen (lost) keys. I don’t know any relevent information about this place or about most of these temple and related photos as I am just not into it. It was there, I looked, and I am certain some day on a travel related tv show they will pan by it and I will be able to say “yup, I saw that.”
This was going to be a much better shot as there was a bunch of school kids dressed up in their junior monk outfits ready to walk by but they veered left at the last moment leaving me with just these things. Just imagine little bald kids in orange drapes walking through there, great color contrast, proportionalism, and cute little kids. Much better huh.
Kind of reminded me of the Roman architecture that I saw in Lebanon but with big chicken guards. Snapshot.
Ummmm, this is the protector of the bricks God.
I don’t know, the red brick thing just doesn’t do it for me. Kind of reminds me of the fireplace at my parents house. It just doesn’t bring out classic nostalgia in my eyes at least.
Looks cute huh. Second meanest dog that I have met. Took a photo, thought “what a good dog”, deserves a ear rub and a head pat. Give the usual palms down hand out so it could give me a sniff and the fucker went after my hand. Freaking buddhist dogs. Now, I am not crapping when I say that as most temples where the monks are living have these dogs laying all over the place. Rarely do you meet a friendly one. Lots of temples put up signs stating to not run if the dogs start barking. Yea, thats real nice.
Big laying down Buddha. It was pretty massive as you can see the size compared to the people. But you can see what I mean when you don’t see that it is made out of red brick (although it is just covered in concrete.) Let some vines grow over it and you got yourself a prop for any adventure movie.
You can ride around on elephants. In the north you see a lot more of these tamed elephants all over the tourist areas. You have riding ones as well as a lot walking the streets with touts as they try to sell bags of sugarcane to tourists so they can feed the elephants. This is another one of those begger issues that I wrote about before with the exception of substituting elephants for little kids. If you really want to know, what the issue is, I guess it is not a very healthy lifestyle to raise an elephant in the cities. I am not exactly what is so bad about it, but it is an issue. They used to be used for logging but as that has been industrialized and timber harvesting limited, many of these pachaderms are not needed anymore and are taken to the cities for the aforementioned street work.
No more sun so, the end.
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