Crop of Thailand

the country Northeast - a place of prehistoric finds. Ban CHiang - a place where the crop of a bronze age of almost 5000-year-old prescription - rock paintings has been detected. Nearby there are monuments of the khmer season (IX-XI centuries) - temples At Fan Rung and Phimai with images of gods and heroes and the latest monastery Pra Tat the Fan. In the country southwest traces of Buddhist empire Dvaravati refer to to this season - in Nakun Patome, Khu Bua, Phong the Artificial manure and Lavo (Lopburi) the rests of temples with sculptures and bas-reliefs were saved; CHedi Bat wools Fra in Nakhun Si Tammarat - more than thousand-year ruins.

In XIII-XV centuries in the west of the country there was a dazzling city Sukotai - the first capital of the Thai state. Now poverzhennyj the city represents huge archaeological park to antiquities with ruins of ancient temples among ponds (Bat wools Fra Si Rattana, etc.), covered with lotuses. Thai architecture ðàçâèâàåò  traditions of Buddhist temples. In the north, in Chiang Mai, second-large from country cities, there is monastery Doi Suter-Shrine.

Aujutaja - the most beautiful ancient capital of Siam (XIV-XVIII centuries) lays in one hundred kilometres to the north of Bangkok. It has been destroyed by Burmans. Ruins are unusually beautiful - fantastic temples, graceful towers of pagodas and mortars in the form of a flower of a lotus or of a bell from crude or of a burnt brick, decorated with arabesque images. The city has originated in a place of coalescence of three rivers - Menam with inflows. Away from a city, on island in a temple of Bat wools Panancheng there was a big sculpture of the Buddha. There was no time here and the well-known monastery of Bat wools Pra Si Sanpet from which there was three Buddhist mortar. The temple of Bat wools Tea Vattanaram on a lap of day represents a magic show. Unfortunately, many of unique temples have been plundered by hunters behind exotic souvenirs. Now here there is a historical park.

In Bangkok, based in XVIII century at-sight a fishing small village, many amazing monuments of mature Thai architecture. In a city about 300 temples. The big royal palace, a huge complex of perfect constitutions (the square of 60 hectares), numbering more than two centuries of history, - now a museum. Here there is the most ancient royal residence Chitralada the Country house. The most impressing creation of Buddhist architecture - a temple of Bat wools Fra Keo (a temple of the Emerald Buddha), decorated with a jeweller thread and statues. A temple of Bat wools Bencha-mabofit (the Marble temple), builted on a boundary of this century, - an instance of modern Buddhist architecture. Fra Tinang Pajsan Takshin - a temple, constituting part a complex of old residences - a place of crowning of monarchs.

In the north of the country especially brightly celebrate Songkran - Thai New year, and also pedigree feasts of jointweeds. In the northeast - the festivals: Bunas Bang Faj (festival of rockets), Hao Fansa (refund of rains), Prasat Fung (a taking of the paper lock), in the south - CHak Fra (entering of a statue of the Buddha and festival of ten lunar outlet boxes).