Today we took a day trip to Lop Buri, a province about 150 kilometers North-East of Bangkok. One of Lop Buri's claim to fame is that there are a large number of monkeys (actually they are macaques) in the city and around temple Prang Sam Yot.
The macaques are everywhere around the temple. They are hanging on nearby power lines as well as all over the temple and other buildings. The macaques are fairly aggressive, as one of them came and snatched up a water bottle from Tim's back pocket.
In addition to Prang Sam Yot, we also visited another temple, a museum that was the former palace of one of Thailand's past kings, and a nearby dam. The dam was crowded, but pretty uninspiring. The museum was pretty cool and housed some artifacts seven or eight hundred years old.
The traffic on the way home was terrible,as a lot of Thais seem to have started to return to Bangkok from the long holiday weekend. Overall it was a nice day.
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