Packages Tours #303, Cultural UNESCO World Heritage Tours
Si Satchanalai - Sukhothai Historical Park
Duration : 2 Days & 1 Night
Programme & Itinerary :
Si Satchanalai Historical Park ; Si Satchanalai, now a district of Sukhothai province, lies on the right bank of the River Yom. There are 137 places with historical association in Si Satchanalai. The site has been declared, UNESCO World Heritage and also Thailand’s national historical park.
Wat Phra Si Rattana Maha That Chaliang is located on the Yom River about one kilometer southeast of Si Satchanalai. The large prang was built in the reign of King Borom Tri Lokanat of Ayutthaya to cover the original Khmer prang. It was made from laterite. In the center of the large hall inside, a small stupa contains the Buddha relic’s is situated.
Wat Chang Lom has a large stupa of the round bell-shaped Singhalese style made in laterite. The square base of 31 meters sides is in three receding tiers with such decorative features as of 39 elephant caryatids.
Wat Nang Phaya has beautiful stucco floral motifs which could belong to the Ayutthaya period.
Wat Chedi Chet Thaew. The principal monument of the temple is a stupa of the lotus-bud summit style or Phum Khao Bin on a square base of 13.50 meters sides. Around it are 33 smaller stupas of various style. These stupas probably contain relics of members in the Si Satchanalai ruling family.
Sukhothai Historical Park ; Sukhothai lies on the east bank of the river Yom. Sukhothai is 427 kilometers from Bangkok. Within the city are found four large ponds and 21 historical sites. The area around the within a radius of 5 kilometers contains about 70 historical places, mostly religious monuments of Buddhist or Hindu significance. The site has been declared, UNESCO World Heritage and also Thailand’s national historical park.
The statue of King Ramkhamhaeng the Great, showing the king seated on the Phra Thaen Manang Silabat, to honor and commemorate King Ramkhamhaeng the great king of the Sukhothai period, who created the Thai alphabet.
Noen Prasat., the elevated base of the rectangular building is 27.50 m. long and 2.50 m. high, adorned with overturned and upturned lotus moulding. He also found a dais where King Ramkhamhaeng once presided over his council of state or when he listened to teachings of Buddhist monks. The stone inscription also describes the planting of the Palmyra palm of King Ramkhamhaeng. Noen Prasat is the remains of the base of the palace of Sukhothai kings.
Wat Maha That is the most important and largest in the old city. It was the royal temple within the palace, in the same way as Wat Phra Si Sanphet in Ayutthaya and Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok. The temple compound is filled with an assortment of construction. Close investigation yielded 200 stupa ruins, 10 vihan foundations, 8 porches for holding Buddha images, and one bot foundation.
Wat Si Sawai. The prang is in the three-tower style. The middle prang is 20 meters in height while the two side ones are 12 meters in height. The brick parts of the prang tower represent the restored section while the original parts are in laterite.
Wat Trapang Ngern. The Buddha images found here are all in the attitude of walking Buddha. East of the principal stupa, an ordination hall was constructed on an island in the middle of the reservoir named Trapang Ngern.
Wat Sa Si. This beautiful ancient monument is in the middle of large reservoir known as Trapang Trakuan. The ordination hall in the middle of the reservoir points to a Buddhist concept of demarcating an area where monks perform religious functions by enclosing the holy precincts with water as a symbol of purity.
The City Pillar. It is assumed to have been a small squre building with a brick base and a tiled roof.
Wat Sorasak. The main bell-shaped chedi sits on a base of elephant sculptures. This concept is based on a belief that the elephant regarded as a beast of burden for the emperor, is a suitable animal to firmly uphold Buddhism throughout a period of 5,000 years.
Wat Phra Phai Luang. The principal monument here is a three-tower prang though only the north tower remains infact, the middle and south towers having only the lower section left. The prang is in the Khmer Bayon style of King Jayavaraman VII.
Wat Si Chum is remarkable in that its principal monument is a mondop, instead of a stupa or a prang. The mondop enshrines a large brick and stucco seated Buddha image the “Phra Atchana”. The left wall has a tunnel for walking upward to the roof found in the left wall over 50 figures engraved on slate stone on its ceiling, depicting the jataka stories with explanatory text in Sukhothai characters.
Wat Saphan Hin stands on the shoulder of a 200 meters high hill about 1.5 kilometer west of the Sukhothai city. There is a slate stone path leading up to the courtyard of the temple on which stands a brick vihan with laterite pillars.
Wat Chetuphon. The four walls of the mondop portray in stucco the Buddha in the four attitudes, viz. standing Buddha on the west wall, seated Buddha on the north wall, reclining Buddha on the south wall and walking Buddha on the east wall.
Day 1 : Si Satchanalai Historical Park ; Bike Tour
06:00 a.m. Leave for Si
Satchanalai Historical Park
12:00 a.m. Lunch
01:00 a.m. Visit Wat Phra Si Rattana Maha That
Chaliang, Wat Chang Lom,
Wat Nang, Phaya and Wat Chedi Chet Thaew
04:00 p.m. Depart Si Satchanalai
05:00 p.m. Arrive
Hotel/Accommodation in Sukhothai
Day 2 : Sukhothai Historical Park ; Bike Tour
07:30 a.m. Visit Sukhothai Historical Park ; The
statue of King Ramkhamhaeng the great, Noen Prasat, Wat Maha That, Wat Si Sawai, Wat Trapang Ngern,
Wat Sa Si, The City Pillar, Wat Sorasak, Wat Chetuphon, Wat Phra Phai Luang, Wat
Si Chum, Wat Saphan Hin
12:00 a.m. Lunch
01:00 p.m. Leave for Bangkok
07:00 p.m. Arrive Bangkok
Information :
Tourist Guide Fee :
Depend on Guests/Tourists Satisfaction or Negotiable.
Language : English
For Guests/Tourists
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-Guests/Tourists will be Spent per
Actual for Admission Fee, Meals & Beverages, Private Transportation /
Public Transportation such as Van, Public Boat, Public Bus, Ferry, Taxi,
Tuk-Tuk., Etc.
-Recommended Transportation for this
Packages: Exclusive Van and Bike at Si Satchanalai and Sukhothai Historical
Park.
-This programme can be arranged or changed
according to Guests/Tourists are required.
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around Thailand as required by yourself in order to fulfill the once in a
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