Ayuthaya

Turns out that even though Buddha has all that surface area for feet, he's not ticklish even a little bit. What a waste.

This is Wat Wai Chai Mongkol. It's one of the many ridiculously old temples in Ayuthaya, about an hour and a half North of Bangkok. It has something like 150 Buddha statues.




No, this is not a circus vehicle and Stu has not grown that much since we've been here :) This is actually a functioning part of the transportation system in Thailand. It only has three wheels, but two VERY large speakers! This is kind of like the little brother to what we ride to work in every morning.







These are the ruins of Wat Mahathat. There's tons of ruins all over town. Ayuthaya used to be the capital of Thailand about 600 or 700 years ago, til Burma sacked the city. They beheaded all the Buddha statues and then cut them in half. It's kind of erie because they now have the statues sitting up in the spots they used to be...but all the heads are missing.

This is the Buddha face that they have carved into one of the trees by this same temple. The guard wouldn't let us take our picture with our heads higher than the face. If you can't recognize Buddha in any shape, size, or angle by the time we're done blogging about this country then you never will.