Wallowing in the River (Part 2)
The majestic reconstructed city of Ayutthaya at Ancient City, the world’s largest outdoor museum Along the way, we toured a serpentarium on the outskirts of Bangkok to learn about the various species of snake present in Thailand while attending an exhilarating snake circus performance. After lunch, the group headed to Wat Saman, a pagoda with a unique architecture, as it presented a fusion of two major branches of Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) and Hinduism along with Thai and Chinese folk religions. The grounds of Wat Saman were sacred at every inch, for religious statues were omnipresent. One of the most conspicuous ones was the 22m long bright bink statue of Ganesha, a Hindu god with an elephant head and a human body, who represented wisdom and clearance of obstacles. The statues of two white standing mice escorted Ganesha were surrounded with visitors whispering their wishes in the mice’s ears to wish for good luck. The statue of Ganesha, taken not far from a Spiderman figur...