Labor, influent and funding of this Palace
The palace was built by labor
of Lao Pruan (ลาวพรวน). It took three years to finish it. The architecture
design is combination of neo classic ,
Chinese , Thai , Persia and Cambodia. It is international place, isn’t it. The
King use money which collects from palm tax to build the palace.
The layout of Palace
The palace consist of three
parts, temple, resident area, and palace. Temple is called Wat Phakeaw which is
the same name as in Bangkok. Idea of this palace as from Hindu Cosmology as
Meru mount which has center or palace is epicenter of the universe. The Palace
section has Throne hall , reception room and royal resident area. The less is
living area for the followers of the King.
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| Palace Layout and located on mountain top |
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| Take a short cut to go up by cable car |
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| quick and easy ride , no sweat |
This palace has a lot of
monkey and everywhere you go you will see beware of monkey. We took short way
to go up by cable car so it was not bad to interface with monkey. However, I
saw a few. Those monkey was well behave so it must be train. Lucky me!
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| We warn you !! |
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| Keep your camera , hat and snack well. |
King Rama IV
King Rama IV was interested
in astronomy and astrology. There are observatory that he used. The king visited this place when he was ordain as Buddhist monk for 27 years. He decided to built the palace here and came here fore leisure and observation the star and westerner troop. The colonization was a big issue during his period so this palace has been use for multi-function.
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| We walk along royal walk way |
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| Part of the palace |
We spend for hour walk around
and we were lucky to have local guide who explain us so well about history of
this palace.
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| Behind me is observation hall with breath taking view of Plumeria blossom |
Wat Naphom
Wat Naphom is our next destination. This place has abbot who try to preserve traditional way of making palm sugar. The abbot come and we offer sankatan for him ( utensil for Buddhist monk) |
| Khun A sit on the ground and pay respect to the Buddhist monk |
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| Offer sankatan to the monk |
We taste palm sap. It is sweet and hot cook from oven. We add ice and enjoy the taste of this cool drink.
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| Unbelievable delicious , fresh palm sap . Prof. Yada took to cup ( cup made of coconut shell) |
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| Show how to open the palm fruit |
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| Cleaning the bamboo container with smoke |
Koaw Chae
Then, we were serve Koaw Chae. It is special snack . It originate from royal recipe. And it is very famous for this area. Their are streamm rice, fragrant water, loog krabei, chaipo chuam and pla sent cooked in sugar.
Then, we were serve Koaw Chae. It is special snack . It originate from royal recipe. And it is very famous for this area. Their are streamm rice, fragrant water, loog krabei, chaipo chuam and pla sent cooked in sugar.
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| Having Koaw Chea which is hard to find in Bangokk |
After this , we continue to pad thai tana for lunch.
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| Pad Thai |
Then we continue to Poncamwan factory and shop.
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| mixed flower for Allor |
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| dropping allor on tray |
We made dessert and sampling the product of university.
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| Baking for a day |
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| Tongmuan is very delicious |
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| Snack from university |
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| great look snack |
LJ Biz would like to thank you Silpakorn university to create such a wonderful project.
And Thank for Phetburi people we met and talk which welcome us. We appreciate all the tip and admire your lifestyle.
Personally , i would like to recognize as
NO one know hoe to use Tarn Tanod better than Phetburi people.
Keep up your good work.
We hope to be part of promote this area with sustainable tourism and hope to help income distribution and preserve our culture.
Last, thank you for reading this. We hope you enjoy it.
All the best,
Eng
Since 2004 , thousands of happy guests
Thailand : Cambodia : Laos : Myanmar : Vietnam : South East Asia
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