Bangkok - Day 4

Bangkok Day 4 is the day where we really go travel around Bangkok's small small historical places. We just bought the package few days back to join their travel agent to go Ayuthaya, the historical places in Bangkok.

First stop, Summer Palace, the place where the Thailand's King's "relaxing" palace. Heard from the guide that the King rarely come here, only come when there's some "family" meeting or entertain some royal guests.

Once we entered, this is the beautiful view that can be seen...

This building is where the Thailand's King come for relaxing or entertain some royal guests

The Summer Palace is so huge that it contains quite a lot of greeneries!!!
A gazebo to view the small lake there...
A small temple where only the King are allowed to go
At the other side of the temple is this beautiful garden
Me was sweating like a pig cuz this palace is HUGE!!! Need to walk a lot leh...

A small bridge to cross over the other side of the palace...
This is the bridge which was used by the King's wives to go and meet the king for..... hehehehe...
Inside the palace there's a few building where each contains different themes, this is the Victorian themes... It's damn nice!!!
Continue on would be to the main palace where the King and Queen rests
Behind my boyboy would be the small tower for viewers to go up and look around the whole of Summer Palace

Along the tower, there's this beautiful garden that they maintains with few cute cute "animals"
Behind my boyboy is the main palace, the Summer Palace which is in Chinese's themes
At the side you'll be able to see the lake and more greeneries... it's damn beautiful and relaxing!!!
Then there's flower gardens which contains loads of bougainvillea (I think that's how it's spelled)
This small ride need about 400baht for your convenience to travel around the Summer Palace

As this palace is huge, the "golf cart ride" is available for renting if you would like to take a very thorough view of the whole of Summer Palace. Due to it's price-y and we don't have enuff time, we didnt rent it but PRETEND I got the chance to ride it... kakakakakaka...

Next stop would be Ayuthaya, the place where the war between Burma and Siam first started.

This tree is the Bodhi tree where the Buddha sat during His meditation... or something like that... :p
This place used to be a palace where the 1st King Rama built and lived.

Now it becomes the remaining ruins from the war between Burma and Siam. From what the tour guide told us, each and every palace that the Thai's King had, they sure would build a temple for the Gods. This shows that the Thai's royals are very religious and they respects the Gods greatly.

This 3 stupa behind my boyboy is the entrnace to a temple. But after the war, it became like this...
Behind my boyboy you could see that there's the remains of the Buddha's body. This place is actually a temple too.
Standing at the center(in white shirt) is our tour guide explaining the history of Ayuthaya.
My boyboy made me laugh when he took this pic. I laugh till cant see my eyes!!!
This tree got loads of flowers!!! It's so beautiful leh!!!
My boyboy look so tired!! hahahahaha... But this place environment is soooo soothing.. except the heat...
Again he made me laugh at something I did earlier, and I cant see my eyes again... aihhh...
Another view around the ruins of the palace...

Next stop is the Wat Mahatat... where there's something extraordinary things can be seen!!!

This is the temple at Wat Mahatat.

This Buddha statue was being re-built after the Burma attacked Siam. This Buddha statue is actually being re-built by the Burmese itself for feeling guilty of attacking a very sacred temple and for destroying this Buddha statue.

As an apology, they agreed to re-build this Buddha statue using the original ruined form to continue to re-make a Buddha statue to let it looks like new! When I see it, I really can't see the ruined part. I'm impressed!!

This is the extraordinary thing that can be seen in Ayuthaya, a Buddha head IN a tree!!!
It's a smiling Buddha too!!

There's a story behind this Buddha head. It is said that during the war, as the temple was being destroyed, a lot of Buddha's statue was being destroyed too. So it happens that this Buddha head might comes from one of the Buddha head from the ruins.

So when it was being left at the ground for too long after the war, a tree somehow grew around the Buddha head as if to protect this Buddha head from being further destroyed. So the Thai's found it extraordinare that they believe the power of Buddha and pray this Buddha head.

If we were to take pic with this Buddha head, we're not allowed to stand higher than the Buddha head as the Thai's said that it'll be disrespectful. The Gods are always higher than us so we're not allowed to stand higher than them. I agree!!! :D

Along Wat Mahatat would be more ruined temples from the war
This used to be a temple too and this is wat left of it after the war...
This is the only Buddha statue that are not ruined. So we're not allowed to make funny faces/movements when taking pic together with the Buddha.

Oh... when going to all this places, especially into a temple, we're not allowed to wear sleeveless shirt or something too "revealing". It is said to be very disrespectful if we didnt cover our "meat". So that's the reason why I have to wear back the clothes I wore previous days.

The last stop would be sitting on a boat along the Chao Phraya River back to the harbour.

Me and boyboy cam-whoring inside the boat. It's a very comfy boat!!!
This is where we had our buffet lunch where it's included in the tour fare.
After our yummy lunch, we continue to cam-whore around the boat.
This is on the upper deck of the boat. Look at how strong the wind is!!!
Then we sit at the side of the boat to enjoy the view along the river and cam-whore a bit...
It's a very relaxing ride... You don't feel like you're above water at all!!!
Then my boyboy being hamsap, snap this pic of the guailou showing-off his white undies!!!

pppsssstttt.... quite a leng chai guai lou too!!! HEHEHEHEHEHEHE... Oh and errr... can you see there's a leg behind the guailou?? It's another guailou LYING and SLEEPING on a table after the drank the Heineken. kekekekekeke... He must've been drunk!! kakakakakaka!!!
My boyboy curi-curi take this pic of me relaxing... Well it looks like I'm soooo relaxed!!! :D
Then I took again the Temple of Dawn. It's really a very beautiful temple...

So that's it for my Day 4 trip. By the time we reach hotel, it's already almost 6pm. So we went to the Pratunam Mall for another round of foot massage!!! And it only costs us about 135baht!! Which is only about RM13.50!!!!!!! For an hour leh!!! CHEAP RITE??!?!?!?!

Oh I miss the foot massages there!!! I WAN FOOT MASSAGE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!