Trip to Korea

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This is another picture of that same tower/monument, but this time as seen from the remaining entrance to a temple area (the roof and walls were gone, but the entrance doorway was still there). Below on the left is another common shape for their twoers/pagodas which was a tapered cone shape. Next to it is a another tower where you can see that many of them are hollow. There were also no barriers and I was feeling adventurous so went inside and started climbing the stairs. Of course there were no windows and so it quickly became completely dark. Further these were true ruins and had not been repaired and so the stairs were over grown with dirt and grass and whatever making the climb particularly precarious. I only got about half way up this one before I turned around and came down. I had wondered if there were any windows at the top, but doubt it as there would have light filtering down if there had been openings further up. Ayuthaya ruins. =0=
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Here are some other towers and below is a section of wall that shows how precarious some of the ruins are. This section of tower seems have collased on two sides and the other two seem to be in danger of falling with supports to delay that. Of course in this section the broken and collapsed portions have been removed. Ayuthaya ruins. =0=
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Here are some doorways that led to a central area, perhaps a sanctuary. If you notice these buildings were all red brick covered with plaster. The plaster has survived in some places. All around there were various statues of Buddha as shown in the picture below on the left. If you notice behind the statue there are surviving decorations in the plaster, but vegetation is growing up all the same. Next to that is a picture of a courtyard that is well maintained with trees and bushes recently planted and the lawn well trimmed. They have also cleared away all the rubble. Ayuthaya ruins. =0=
Ayuthaya ruins. =0= Ayuthaya ruins. =0=
However there were other sections that completely au naturale complete with rubble and overgrown vegetation. In those sections some of the statues had been broken and below on the left is a head from a statue of Buddha that had the roots of a tree growing around it. I was quite impressed by how natural it looked. We also soon found out how they kept the grass so nicely trimmed. Below on the right is a herd of cattle grazing tghe ruins. Ayuthaya ruins. =0=
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And here is a calf that was exploring for some particularly apetizing grass. We thought he was a particularly cute calf. Ayuthaya ruins. =0=
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