Ancient City or Muang Boran, Samut Prakan Province ~ Vietnam Adventure Holidays

Muang Boran or the Ancient City, Samut Prakan Province, is the world's biggest open air museum. It occupies an area of 500 rais (200 acres). Construction began in the latter part of 1963. It is located at Tambon Bang Pu Mai, at Km. 33.5 of the old Sukhumvit Road, 8 kilometres from Samut Prakan town. This unique attraction is the center of scaled down and actual size replicas of important historical sites of various provinces such as Prasat Hin Phanom rung, Wat Mahathat sukhothai, Phraphuttabat Saraburi, Phrathat Mueang Nakhon, Phrathat Chaiya, etc. Furthermore, there are rare traditional folk arts and cultures, some of which are hard to come by nowadays. For those who wish to learn about Thailand, they will not be disappionted here.
Getting there by car, take the Samrong, Samut Prakan Road to Samut Prkan T-junction and turn left going along the old Sukhumvit road (road to Bang Pu), then at approximately Km. 33 turn into an entry road to Muang Boran and drive on for 8 kilometres, Muang Boran will be on the left. To get there by bus, take the air conditional bus Line no. 11 (Pin Klao - Pak Nam) to the end of the Line and take the local mini bus Line no. 36 to Muang Boran.
The museum is open dairly from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm Admission : Adult 300 baht, Child 200 baht. Fees for taking a car or van in is 50 baht. for more information call 0 23239253, 0 22241058 or web site : ancientcity.com
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The Grand Palace, Bangkok

Sanpet Prasat Hall, Ayuttaya

The Stupa of Phra That, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.
The monastery is a remarkable architectural reminder of the artistic virtuority of the southern Thai architects. The Stupa, where the Buddha relics are housed, was built during the regin of King Sri Thammasokarat in 555 A.D. When Nakhon Si Thammarat was first established. The stracture is obviously infloenced by Singhalese School of Art.
The Stupa at Muang Boran is smaller than the original one at Nakhon Si thammarat by one third. However, the structure was painstakingly rebuilt based on archaevlogical evidences.
credit : Muang Boran sign board

Wat Chom Kom, Lampang

The Tiger King's Palace, PhetchaburiBuddhist art museum displaying corved and gilded cabinets and chests taken from the monasteries. Muang Boran has reconstruced the teaching hall in samller size.