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Wat Ratchaburana, Ayutthaya

Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya, Thailand

520m

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Wat Phra Si Sanphet

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Wat Phanan Choeng

Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya, Thailand

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Wat Chaiwatthanaram

Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand

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Ayothaya Floating Market

market in Ayutthaya province, Thailand

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JEATH War Museum

The acronym JEATH stands for the primary nationalities involved in the construction of the railway: Japanese, English, Australian, American, Thai and Holland. The free guide leaflet concludes with these salutary words, "May Peace Always Conquer Violence". Exhibits are housed in a palm hut, modeled on the type of buildings in which Death Railway POWs would have slept. Also displays a section of the first wooden bridge, recreations of the POW barracks and miscellaneous military paraphernalia. Downstairs is a somewhat incongruous exhibit of prehistoric Thailand complete with semi-erotic murals. The temple complex next door is interesting, although a cross-river boat departing from the riverside is the best attraction. The museum is time-worn, with many of the exhibits rusty or damaged by insects and the weather. Overall it is tatty and amateurish, and it may strike you as an insult to those who suffered here; far superior is the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre.

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Thailand–Burma Railway Centre

former railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma

120km

14.032399.5248

Si Racha

town in Chon Buri province, Thailand

133km

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Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya (อยุธยา), full name Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya (พระนครศรีอยุธยา), is an ancient capital and modern city in the Central Plains of Thailand, 85 km north of Bangkok.

The city is about 40 miles (64 km) north of Bangkok.

Ayutthaya was founded in 1351 by King U Thong, who went there to escape a smallpox outbreak in Lop Buri and proclaimed it the capital of his kingdom, often referred to as the Ayutthaya kingdom or Siam. Ayutthaya became the second Siamese capital after Sukhothai. It is estimated that Ayutthaya by the year 1600 had a population of about 300,000, with the population perhaps reaching 1,000,000 around 1700, making it one of the world's largest cities at that time, when it was sometimes known as the "Venice of the East".

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

31°C17
Precipitation: 2.4 mm

Feb

33.3°C19.4
Precipitation: 18.8 mm

Mar

35.4°C22.3
Precipitation: 43.5 mm

Apr

35.9°C24.3
Precipitation: 67.9 mm

May

34.3°C24.5
Precipitation: 208 mm

Jun

32.6°C24.3
Precipitation: 223 mm

Jul

32°C24
Precipitation: 180.8 mm

Aug

31.4°C23.8
Precipitation: 260 mm

Sep

31.3°C23.5
Precipitation: 213.9 mm

Oct

31.3°C22.5
Precipitation: 167.6 mm

Nov

30.7°C20
Precipitation: 37.1 mm

Dec

30°C17.4
Precipitation: 0.8 mm
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