The Grand Palace
Bangkok is a well spread out city. We had obtained the city maps and the briefings for a possible tour. Sightseeing is a process of...
Touring Bangkok
To get up lonely in a large room in a foreign hotel is a different experience. I had slept late, so lingered in bed a bit longer and got...
Khon Dance Theater
Though we belonged to a village in Puri, Orissa, I grew up in Cuttack, a town some sixty miles north. Puri is at the sea, Cuttack is...
Theravada Nuns' Religious Service
More than fifty years ago, during the turbulent sixties, we had some discussion of the Orissa's maritime trade. Those were the days of...
Ayutthia Park
All the sheets and the dhurries were folded back and each of the participants was given back apacket with his or her name on it. The...
Ayutthia (Ayodhya!) Palace
As we approached our new destination, I saw elephants with people mounted strolling on the side of the road. There was a whole...
Relaxed evening
It was going to be 3 PM. We still have to go to the Ayutthia Museum which contained some of the artifacts collected while excavating the...
Departure from Bangkok
By talking to people and reading the literature, I have learned that the Thai royal household still maintains the royal "rajguru", the...
