Three friends at Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya pictures

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June 26th 2005
Hello again! Finally, we have a computer that we can upload pictures from! Attached are a few pictures from Ayutthaya. This place was really amazing. It was the capital of Siam for several hundred years, and the Burmese attacked and successfully ransacked the city. Many were killed, others tortured. Many of the Buddha images were destroyed, all of them were damaged. The destruction was quite am ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more