Old Sukhothai and Kampaeng Phet Historical Park Images

[Ron19]

Sukhothai has not been forgotten after all. Spent a couple of hours there last Monday.

[Ron19]

Kampaeng Phet Historical Park, spent an hour or so here as well.

 

[fredob43]

37 minutes ago, Ron19 said:

Kampaeng Phet Historical Park, spent an hour or so here as well.

 

Us locals know it's not been forgotten. Seems only TV thinks the 400+ km between Sing Buri and C/Mai doesn't exist. Nice snaps.

[Ron19]

That has just been changed today with the exception of Phichit and Uthai Thani,

the rest of my proposal being added to the Central sub forum within local forums.

If you look at the opening page of the central forum you will see what has been added on.

In the long run management decided it wasn't a good move to create a new forum so they

suggested that they do it has been done. I said okay I can work with that and as people

like yourself have been doing posting on the central forum anyway. Certainly better off

than having nothing at all.

I have spent a lot of time today moving some posts across to here that would have been

posted here normally. Even things posted in Chiang Mai and Bangkok that had nothing to

do with those forums.

Cheers,

Ron

[Kwasaki]

Good to see Suk added as l like the history of Thailand.  

 

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[Ron19]

Great set of images, enjoyed.

All members are most welcome to add their own images and comments to this thread as they are in other threads over the forum. That is what a forum is all about and includes any suggestions for improvement.

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[Ron19]

Kampaeng Phet Historical Park

 

[Ron19]

Sukhothai Historical Park - Sellers offering  krathongs or buoyant, decorated baskets ready for the function that night.

 

According to the Royal Institute Dictionary 1999, loi (ลอย) means "to float", while krathong (กระทง) has various meanings, one of which is "a small container made of leaves which to be floated on water during the Loi Krathong festival".^[1]Krathong is traditionally small leaf container which are made to hold small portion of goods. Which, generally, are some kind very traditional Thai dish, such as "Hor Mok", and some Thai traditional dessert. The traditional krathong for floating at the festival are made from a slice of the trunk of a banana tree or a spider lily plant. Modern krathongs are more often made of bread or Styrofoam. A bread krathong will disintegrate after a few days and can be eaten by fish. Banana stalk krathong are also biodegradable, but Styrofoam krathongs are sometimes banned, as they pollute the rivers and may take years to decompose. A krathong is decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, incense sticks, and a candle. A small coin is sometimes included as an offering to the river spirits.

On the night of the full moon, Thais launch their krathong on a river, canal or a pond, making a wish as they do so. The festival may originate from an ancient ritual paying respect to the water spirits.

[Kwasaki]

Wat Sri Chum is outside of the fenced Historical park area but not far.

Interesting history events linked to this area.

 

If the caretaker is about and there are next to no people around with a donation offer ask him if he will let you go inside where pyramid type stone stairs leading right to the top of the monument with lookout openings on the way to the roof where's there's a trap door but they won't allow roof access now because of safety.

[Kwasaki]

300 metre from my house.

 

[gk10002000]

nice.  is spent three days there back in 2010 I think it was.  took the bus from Mo chit in Bangkok.  A pleasant day ride with a break for lunch.  It was quite cool at night and the little cover on the bed barely kept me warm.  The little hotel right near the small night market had a room for like 250 baht as I recall. Simple plain but clean and cheap and fine for two nights.  The December day weather was beautiful.  I didn't rent a bike but walked around the park.  Looks like I missed the museum and didn't know it was there?  Not a lot of tourists and it was quite peaceful