Ayuttaya, Thailand

We took a day trip to Ayuttaya, even though it's spelled 15 different ways. Ayuthaya, Ayuttaya, and so on. It left at 7am on the standard little mini-van thing. This time it was almost empty as it was just the 4 of us and a Canadian girl. Later we picked up some other people and it was full. Ayuttaya, pronounced Ah-Yu-T-Ya, was the capital of Thailand before the modern Bangkok. The ruins are old, but amazing. At least if you are into ruins, as I am, but the others in my group didn't really want to be there. I kept hearing "Another temple? When is it over". Next time I'll make my intentions clear and say stay home if you don't want to go and plan to whine the whole time.

This describes the Wats, or temple / shrine, below. The "H" isn't pronounced.

The inside is hollow and there is a secret entrance somewhere, but it's not known.

There were buddhas like this everywhere. Large, medium, small.

A famous laying Buddha, not as Gold as the one in the Grand Palace, but still about the same size.
This one was inside at one time, but the structure was burned, so maybe it was Gold.

The main ruins of Ayuttaya. Three pagodas for three kings. You can go inside them, but they smell like bat crap
and urine collecting for 1,000 years. So I ventured to the edge and left.

This Buddha was in a building but it partially fell.

When the Burmese attacked, repeatedly, they chopped off the Buddha's heads to show disrespect.

A Buddha's head fell and was caught by the vines.

Most of the pictures of Ayuttaya don't need my witty commentary so I will just create an Ayuttaya picture page and post them for you to click on as needed. Feel free to use any image I have for any reason. Give me credit or not, it's just a digital image. I don't care what you do with it.