Field Trip #2: Bang Pa-In and Ayutthaya
Posted by Stuart at 07:40 PM on March 25, 2003I just got back to the campus after another fun field trip. Today we took the school's bus and traveled north to Ayuthaya, the former capital of Thailand. Several hundred years ago it was attacked and destroyed by the Burmese and now all that is left of its former glory are piles of brick rubble. But it is a facinating view, in any case.
On the way back we stopped at Bang Pa-In, the summer palace for the King and Queen of Thailand. We visited Wat Niwet Thamaprawat which is a Buddhist temple that looks like a gothic cathedral. Once inside, the stained glass windows and vaulted ceiling makes you think you are in Europe, until you see the small Buddha statues in front and realize that the person immortalized in the stained glass is Rama V.
