Go to Ayutthaya Province (Week 1, Day 3)

Today I, Nurul, Olivia, Rahmi and Evan invited by Mat and Ing to went to Ayutthaya province, but we got announcement that the teacher coordinators Aj. Aranya and Aj. Tangmo will come to our dorm. So we prepared ourselves and ready to go. Aj. Aranya and Aj. Tangmo come to welcome us because this is our first meeting, they also give us information about our school, they said that student who placement at Boonkhum Ratbumroong school have to move into new dorm because the school is so far from VRU. I got surprised because Boonkhum Ratbumroong school is my placement school, so I ask them to see the new dorm first before we decided to move. I am glad that they allow us to see it first.

After the meeting with Aj. Aranya and Aj. Tangmo, we walked to in front of the university, Mat and Ing already waiting for us and they also bring their aunties to join us. At 10.39 we go to Ayyuthaya by van. After we reach Ayyuthaya we move from van and continue the journey by Tuk-tuk.

Tuk-tuk is a car that only have three wheel and looks like a fish I guess, tuk-tuk usually used to take the tourist to go arround in Thailand. We lease two tuk-tuk because each tuk-tuk only can bring 4-6 people and we are 9 people.

The first place of our tour is “Wat Chaiwatthanaram”. There are so many temples, start from little temple to the biggest one. Mat's auntie go to buy the ticket, after that she come and said to us that we don't talk with English language, Why? because she said that our face is looks like Thai people and she buy tickets for local citizen not for foreign, so we just act like Thai people and get in. It’s so beautiful, so we take a lot of photos here.

  That is ticket for local citizen just pay for 10 baht and for foreign 50 baht.

 After that the aunties take us to muslim café near Wat Chaiwatthanaram, the waiter is so friendly, even he try to speak in Indonesia language. I order Chicken Indian steam rice, and the taste was good and of course all food are halal.

 The second place is “Wat Tha Ka Rong”. It is a place where Buddhist pray and prepared for festival. I also see the people made big candles for new year celebration.

 

I see many people go to toilet, I wonder why, so I decided to go to the toilet. Do you know what I see? They decorate the way to go to the toilet beautifully, flowers everywhere. Maybe you will not believe if you just see the picture because it’s not like the way to toilet, it’s more like flower garden.

 

 Okay now we move to the third place “Wat Phu Khao Thog”. It is a big beautiful white temple which has so many stairs if you want to go upside. Aunties and mat don’t want to go upside because they are so tired, so I, Olivi, Nurul, Ing, Rahmi and Evan go upside, and we are really tired when we reach the upside of temple. When on the upside I heard Adzan from the nearest mosque. Subhanallah, it was my first time to hear Adzan in Thailand, and I’m so happy for it.

 

 Thailand is known as “The land of white elephant”, so the next destination of our journey is “Ayutthaya Elephant Palace”. There are so many elephants and we can feed them too with cucumbers. Although they called as White Elephants, but their color was actually dirty grey in color with a few pink spots. In Thai language elephant means “Chang”.

 When I take photo with the elephants, the baby elephant escape from the stall pass the fence, the visitors are surprised but laughing by the baby elephant doings.

 And the last place is “Wat Phra Si Sanphet”. It is the debris of temple, so the view is very exotic and we can feel historical sense there. Although it is debris of temple, but there are so many Buddhists come to pray. I also try pandanus steam cake and it’s so delicious hmmmm yummy.

 

 

 Because its already afternoon we decided to go back to Pathum Thani, Mat and Ing ask us about our dinner, but we still don’t know “maybe we will buy our dinner at FamilyMart” our reply. “No, no, you have to try Patay” said Mat. Patay is Thai traditional food, it is fried noodle with dried shrimps, tofu, bean sprouts and local celery. If you want, you can ask shrimp or seafood for topping. The taste was good but the portion was big, so I can’t eat it all.

 

 We come back to our dorm at 21.50, after take a bath we go to sleep. Today was a great day, thank you to Mat, Ing, the aunties, Nurul, Olivia, Rahmi and Evan.