Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant ... Later with the fall of the Sukhothai empire and the emergence of the Ayutthaya empire, the statue ...

From ancient civilizations like the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya kingdoms to the ... long reclining Buddha and take a traditional Thai massage at the temple's renowned massage school.

Thailand's roster includes four other sites of historical and cultural importance -- Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (both former capitals of Siam, as Thailand was once known) plus the ancient cultural ...

A Thai monk denied involvement in a fatal hit-and-run in Ayutthaya province, despite CCTV footage showing his car at the scene.