Dallas Smith is a man with many interests including travel, photography, and music. As a photographer, Dallas loves capturing the beautiful and unique aspects of the world around him, both in nature and human-made places. Dallas is also an accomplished musician. He plays a variety of woodwind instruments, including the flute, clarinet, and saxophone.
Ayutthaya lies about a two hour's drive north of Bangkok. It was Thailand's capital for approximately four hundred years, founded in 1351. It was burned by Burmese invaders in 1767, which resulted in its abandonment and the establishment of Bangkok which remains Thailand's current capital.
Below is one of the oldest Stupas, built in the 14th century, in the same era as the construction of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, the world's largest UNESCO world heritage site. Stupas are Buddhist cylindrical structures containing the ashes, bones, or remains of religious figures, and are intended to function as pilgrimage sites for worship and meditation.
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