Tiger Temple Kanchanaburi Thailand

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Female tiger. Allan with large tiger sleeping off its meal of chicken.

Allan with lively tiger cub.  Margaret with the cubof the large female tiger above.

Ayuthaya Thailand

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Baby Elephant unties Allan's shoe laces.  Impressive Elephant in magnificent livery outside Wat Phra Ram. Note the Mahout lying over the elephant's head so that the photographer can get a clear picture of the passengers in the howdah.  

Enematic face of the Buddha enclosed in tree roots at Wat Mahathat. Wat Ratbrana.

Margaret at Wat Chai Wattanaram

Sokhothai Thailand 

Sokhothai was Thailand’s first capital thriving in the 13th century and for the next 200 years, when country was called Siam. This was the golden age of artistic, religious and architectural achievement in Siam led by King Ramkhamhaeng.  We visited the impressive remains of the ancient city which are now well preserved in the Historical Park.

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Wat Si Chum an ancient temple which houses a huge sitting Buddha and still attracts worshipers

Wat Sra Si with a standing Buddha in an unusual stance.

Allan at Wat Chedi Ngam outside the old city walls of Sokhothai. Margaret admiring the massive standing Buddha at Wat Mahathat.

Margaret with the Tuk Tuk driver who took us around the Historical Park. The front loading tuk tuk gives excellent views of the temples. Margaret on the local bus which takes visitors from the Historical Park to the bus station in modern Sokhothai.

In 1438 the city of Sokhothai was absorbed into the Kingdom of Ayuthaya. In the city of Ayuthaya today there are still many monuments to that great historical city, which we visited later in May