Information from Lonely Planet.
” You don’t have to plan an epic journey to get your travel fix – often a quick-hit city break can really take the edge off your travel hunger and pep you up for weeks afterwards. So, if you’ve got very limited time, where do you go?
We asked our readers on Lonely Planet’s Facebook and Twitter: where have you had your best ‘weekend break’ (say, less than 5 days)? And you responded. In fact, over 1000 of you responded.
There was a variety of favourites, with 328 cities nominated, from Adelaide to Zurich. Indicative of the results was Bjorn Trompet‘s response: ’I love Paris and Rome but here I would go for Istanbul. The perfect city to get an East meets West feel…’.
But what are the top 10 cities for a weekend break according to our readers? Paris won the popular vote, followed by Barcelona, then New York City.
1. Paris
2. Barcelona
3. New York City
4. Amsterdam
5. Berlin
6. Istanbul
7. Prague
8. London
9. Hong Kong
10. Bangkok ” ( Hope you visit our beautiful country and enjoy here )
Thanks to Lonely Planet
First of all I need to say Thank you to Father Paitoon Homjinda who allowed us to take photo in Holy Rosary church and also let me show all those photo in y website. Then thanks to K.Joy for her help too.
Holy Rosary church (or วัดแม่พระลูกประคำ – กาลหว่าร์ (Thai name) This church was estrablished since after Ayutthaya Kingdom was destroyed by Myanmar. It was built by Protuguese who could escaped from Myanmar ’s prison camp in that time. But the current church (3rd church was built since King Rama V, Rattanakosin Kingdom). In this church there are very special and valuable things that you must see, Holy Mary and The son and The Body of Jesus. All those statues are more than 200 years old now. Then you will see the 14 windows that show you the 14 steps of Jesus before his death. Anyways it still have a lot of interesting things such as mosaic glasses above each windows, the statue of Saints and Angels and etc. This church will bring you happyness and holyness.
I really recommend you to visite and ask more detail about the history with Father Paitoon. Then don’t forget to see Holy Mary and The Son and The Body of Jesus. And sorry If I give you any wrong information.
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” Chui Chai ” is part of the famous ” Nang Loi ” (Floating lady) episode from the Ramayana epic. Here, we retell ” Chui Chai “, highlighting the difficulty of transforming from the view of demon maiden Benyakai. Her great demon uncle, Thodsakarn, askes her to become Sita- wife of Rama and the quintessentially “Thai” woman- to fool Rama into ending the war. Thodsakarn’s kidnapping of Sita sparked the war with Rama, who fought to get Sita back. To end the war with Rama, Thodsakarn asks Benyakai to become Sita, whom she does not know. Although troubled, Benyakai transforms. Continue reading Thai Opera by Patravadi Theatre
Do you know the story about The Emerald Buddha image in Wat Phra Kaew ?
This Buddha image once in the past he was gone from Thailand. And now he stay in Wat Phra Kaew more than 300 years. Then The Emerald Buddha has 3 clothes that have to be change in each season. See more detail from wikipedia.com as below,
Wat Phra Kaew
and story of The Emerald Buddha
