Goerwitz

Ayutthaya, the second great Thai capital, was sacked and largely destroyed by the Burmese in 1776 (people in the U.S. shouldn't have much trouble remembering this date). Most of its monuments were stripped of precious metals and the Buddha statues decapitated.

My guess is that this one's head has been restored.

Ayutthaya (the capital of Thailand before Bangkok) was sacked and destroyed in 1767 when the Burmese invaded, and looted the city. What you see in this picture are the ruins that were left, along with my daughter and, in the corner, my wife, Amy's, hand and cell phone.

Everywhere we went my daughter seemed to find elephants to feed

In this picture my wife is warming up to take one of the thousand(s) of pictures she snapped while we were in Thailand.

Bang Pa-In Palace was originally built in the Ayutthaya era in Thai history, but was built into what we see here by the famed king Rama V, who had a taste not only for native Thai, but also for European, architecture.