The Grand Palace and Ramakian Murals

The Grand Palace, on the same grounds as Wat Phra Kaew (see previous post), was built in 1882. The main building, the Grand Palace Hall (Chakri Mahaprasat) is a “peculiar blend of Italian Renaissance and traditional Thai architecture. It’s a style often referred to as...Westerner in a Thai crown because each wing is topped by a heavily ornamented spire representing a Thai adaptation of [a] Hindu shrine. 

Thai kings housed their huge harems in the inner palace area, which was guarded by combat-trained female sentries.”

I’ve also included a few more pictures of the murals at Wat Phra Kaew that I couldn’t fit in my last post. These murals line the inside walls of the temple compound and illustrate the Ramakian, the Thai version of the Ramayana epic of India.

I enjoyed snapping some photographs at the Thai Palace in Tecumseh:) 

I used the SnapBridge App from Nikon on my smartphone to remotely activate the shutter on my DSLR and a small Joby tripod on the table. 

I feel my shot of the bamboo hats worked well with the lighting from the window at that particular angle. The hats are Vietnamese though (like my last post), not Thai. You can tell because the hats have “Saigon” written on them, which is another common name for Ho Chi Minh City, in Vietnam. 

The chicken Pad Thai was exquisite, and one of the main reasons I came here is because it is one my all time favourite dishes.