Yesterday we arrived in Ayatthaya and went to the RUINS. The ruins looked awesome when we were walking around the outskirts of them. When we were walking on the right side of the ruins we found an old tower built of bricks. It had a door way and when we were going in, Dad said “look out for snakes”. There weren’t any snakes but there were BATS!!!!!!!!!!! They looked so cool, hanging up side down. They were scared of us so we went to the left side of the ruins.
We went to the counter and paid to get into the actual ruins of Wat Mahathat. When we went in I kept on thinking that I would find a secret passage way that would lead me to a forgotten kings chamber or something like that. On the way around the ruins we saw a Buddha half overgrown by a huge tree. We took a photo of myself and Helen kneeling right beside it.
But my favourite part of the day was when we went to the biggest temple in Thailand, Wat Ratcha Burana and got to go inside and see were the actual king was buried. We went up a big flight of stairs and into the temple. On the wall it said that the king and his brother killed each other dueling on the backs of elephants for who would become king. The king got buried in the middle of the temple. We went down to were the king got buried but he wasn’t there. The walls of his tomb were painted red and were lined with paper thin gold. We stood inside his tomb and we all felt a strong sense of energy from inside the tomb. By the way, the temple is 3,982 years old!!!! The ruins were a highlight of the trip so far and I can’t wait until we see more. We went back to our room and took off to dream land. In the morning we got a tuk-tuk to the train station and got on our train to Pak Chong and Khao Yai national park. Tomorrow we go into the park and look for wild animals. By the way, we had our first rain in two and a half weeks\our first rain since we’ve been in Thailand. Lukoia Coffey over and out