Bang Pa Royal Palace

On Sunday, we had another long day ahead of us and we started at 8am. We went with Ning,Pum, and we picked up Yao on the way. We headed north to the old capital of Thailand, Ayutthaya. On the way up north we were pulled over by the police because I guess we were in the lane that was supposed to be for buses. It's some what of common practice that Police will take around 200 baht to get out of a ticket. I'm not saying that happened, but it's not bad to get out a ticket for $5. It can work against Forang because a guy had to pay 5000 baht to get out of a bogus littering ticket when the police threaten to take him to jail. So it's always good to watch what you're doing and who's around. The trip was not long,about an 1 hour when we arrived at the Palace and saw many tourists from Japan and France. This was the palace where King Rama V lived. The grounds of the palace were huge and had very beautiful landscaping and was very well kept. I had to separate the pictures because there were so many. The grounds consisted of a European style area that was built by the UK. Then, there was a palace and area built by the Chinese and a building with a Thai architecture. We were able to go to all of them except the Thai building. Within the palace there was a place with the King's ceremonial outfits and throne along with the tableware, etc. The items were very interesting but unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures. Yao said that with all of the palace buildings to choose from, the King actually liked to stay in the very small basic house that was on the river. After walking the grounds we headed off to other areas of Ayutthaya.

Bang Pa Royal Palace Pictures

Bang Pa Landscape Pictures