| 09:00 hrs | Meet your English-speaking guide in the hotel’s lobby.
Depart for Petchburi, a charming historic town sitting astride the main road to Southern Thailand has a number of temples with strong connections to the former capital of Ayuthaya. Some of the best examples of Ayuthaya’s mural paintings can be found here. However, the glorious palace now a national museum, which sits on a hilltop overlooking the town, is a breath-taking place to visit.
Our tour of one of Thailand?s oldest provinces starts at the fresh market ,where you can see many kind of ingredient of Thai Food and also fresh fruit.
Then continue to the center of Petchburi is the unmistakable prang (Khmer-style tower monument) of Wat Mahathat. It?s nonetheless stylistically influenced by the Ayuthaya period and its architectural interest belies its comparative lack of years .The towering central prang rises from the middle of a cloister lined with Buddha images, and is surrounded by smaller prangs each with a small chapel.
At Phara Nakhonkhiri we continue our journey by cable car to the beautiful summer palace of King Rama VI, also the setting of the famous movie ’The King and I’. We see the Royal Heritage in the palace museum and admire the spectacular view from the observatory.
Lunch is served before our journey continues to Khao Luang Cave, which houses not less than 170 Buddha Images. From there, we visit a stucco-art-decorated temple.
We drive south to see The Maruka Thai Yawan Palace (Place of love & hope ) Designed by King Rama VI , and completed in 1924 Spend time walking around the beautiful Teakwood Palace , now restored to its former glory.
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