There are a couple of things that are quite interesting about this place. Firstly all of the buildings, or ruins, or Wat's or statues are made to look exactly like the original. It was kinda strange to go past the replica of the Grand Palace as we were at the 'real' one only yesterday. The second thing is that the features are placed into the park in the areas that they really would be in Thailand. For example the displays from Chiang Mai were in the northern part of the park.
I had a read parts of the website for this park, and a statement from its creator certainly sums up how important parks like this are. He says "When most people are not given any chance to access and understand their own country’s cultural heritage, how can they appreciate and be proud of it?"
Nate would tell you that the hands down best part about this park were the golf carts we had to ride around on.
There were a number of school buses of schoolkids touring the park today also except that they used pedal power. I think we had the better option.
We travelled around for about an hour and a half before we got back in our van and headed back to Bangkok proper. We asked our wonderful tour guide Wazza if dropping us at the MBK centre would be ok as we still needed to do some more shopping (Nanny needed a birthday pressie!). Of course it was no drama at all so after a hearty lunch of McDonalds we spent a couple of hours shopping for shoes, shirts, scarf, bag and groceries.
Oh yes I meant to mention yesterday that we found an absolute gem of a place for dinner. Tucked down the side street right next to the hotel we found a tiny little restaurant called Feuang Nara. Everything about this place is great, the range of food, the price, the service and the taste. Last night we all agreed it was the best food we had had here and tonight was no different!!
