"Once an important center of global diplomacy and commerce, Ayutthaya is now an archaeological ruin, characterized by the remains of tall prang (reliquary towers) and Buddhist monasteries of monumental proportions, which give an idea of the city’s past size and the splendor of its architecture....Indeed, when the capital of the restored kingdom was moved downstream… Continue reading BEAUTIFUL BUDDHA ‘FACE’ THRIVING IN THE ROOTS OF RUINS AND THE COSMOLOGICAL SIGHTS AT ‘MOUNT MERU MANDALA’ OF THAILAND: The historic ruined’ city of the ‘Venice of the East’, Ayutthaya, towers, statues and Buddha’s head in the root trunk of an ancient Bodhi tree (Thailand Pilgrimage V)