Wat Naphrameru

The survival temple.

I was brought to visit this temple about 2 decades ago when this temple was not listed in the world heritage area of Ayutthaya province. It was not that commercialized to tourist as nowadays. Neverthe...

Active Temple

We hired a Tuk Tuk, for a day, to visit all the ruins and sites off the island, and started off by visiting this site across the Lopburi River, north of the Grand Palace area. It is about 2.5 km from ...

Two Very Different Buddhas

Went to next site with a large and a small building. The Principal Buddha was in the large building or ordination hall, the Royal Temple, from 1499. This gold Buddha has a crown and is called the Cro...

Beautiful & Graceful Royal Temple with Massive 6 Meter Buddha

Surprisingly this beautiful and graceful ancient Royal Temple (constructed in 1503 AD), survived the ravages carried out by the Burmese, who completely destroyed the ancient city of Ayutthaya in 1767....

temple off the beaten tourist track

Across the small bridge from Ayutthaya's island, this huge temple has two buildings. Especially nice is the smaller size building with a very unusual and unique buddha statue.