Ayutthaya

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As planned, the day was spent in Ayutthaya.

It is interesting to observe how this small city combing its historic heritage with sleepy half-modern urbanization. There are about 500 (!) ancient temples/stupas/palaces spread over the old part of the town. In fact, most of them are nicely presented Khmer style ruins that leave a lot of space for imagination. Although, after Angkor Wat these ruins are not breath-taking, Ayutthaya is still a worth to visit.

At the end of the tour we visited Bang Pa-In palace which is (still occasionally) used as a Royal summer palace. Most of the palace, as seen today, was built at the end of the 19 century and it teleports you in second into central Europe - gardens, arhitecture, canals, statues - all are planned and constructed to resemble the "big brother". See the pics and decide for yourself what you think about it.

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