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If you fascinated by ancient ruins especially ancient temples in Thailand, then the UNESCO World Heritage Site Ayutthaya is the right place for you. The UNESCO World Heritage Site Ayutthaya has many things to offer to adventure travelers such as tourists in terms of ancient history of Khmer temples in Thailand. The UNESCO World Heritage Site Ayutthaya is one of the popular travel destination in Thailand for people who want to see great ancient temples.

Ayutthaya is one of the ancient place in Thailand where you can find many ancient Khmer temples that are scattered around. This wonderful place in Thailand is listed in UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ayutthaya in the past is one of Indochina’s most magnificent cities and is the capital Kingdom of Siam from 1351. Th meaning of “Ayutthaya” is “cannot be conquered”, but in the year 1767, Burmese conquered, raze and destroyed this great city. Burmese burnt all the temples and decapitated all the Buddha statues, taking their heads as war trophies back to Burma.

In your travel to Ayutthaya in Thailand, discover and explore the palaces and temples of th great kings and monks of the past. One of the summer palace of the ancient kings of the past is the Bang Pa-in Palace. In this palace, you can see the magnificent gardens that have a Versaillesque style. The Bang Pa-in Palace contains five important buildings such as the Pha Thinang Aisawan Thippa-at where it has a Thai design castle pavilion that stands in the middle of the lake. The Phra Thinang Warophat Phiman which occupies the original site of the Pavilion built during King Mongkut’s reign. The Phra Thinang Uthayan Phumisathian, this building was almost destroyed by fire in 1938 and formerly was used as a high water season residence. The Phra Thinang Wehat Chamrun, is a Chinese-style building where the court generally resided during the raining and cool season. Phra Thinang Withun Thatsana, is an observatory standing on a small island between Phra Thinang Uthayan and Phra Thinang Wehat Chamrun from which a commanding view of surrounding countryside.

Adventure travelers will also have a chance to see some historical and magnificent ancient buildings, palaces and temples such the Wat Niwet Thammaprawat wher ut has a remarkable building construction during King Chulalongkron’s time on the outer is land. The temple was built in Gothic style, resembling a Christian church.

The Wat Phra Si Sanphet is also a must see temple in your travel tour to Ayutthaya because this is the most important temple in the royal palace compound and corresponds to The Emerald Buddha Temple in Bangkok’s Grand palace. The Wat Yai Chaimongkol, also known as the Wat Chao Phraya Thai is an ancient temple that was constructed in 1357. The Wat Yai Chaimongkol is used for meditation. The Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bophit: The principal Buddha image is one of Thailand’s largest bronze Image. Many small Buddha were also discovered. The Wihan was destroyed when the Burmese sacked Ayutthaya in 1767 and was rebuilt in 1956 in its original style.