This is the last post about my Thai history trip with students and staff at Grace. You can check out the other Thai Trip 2012 posts that hopefully have a link thingy at the bottom of the page (not really sure).
This is a mixture of things that didn't fit in other posts and all of these posts were not in order. :)
After our 12 hour bus ride through the night and visiting the floating market we headed to a temple to see a traditional shadow puppet show. They made the "puppets" out of leather and would perform for royalty a long time ago. They now do special performances to show people what it was like, etc. One of our Thai teacher's husband translated what the monk said about the history, etc.
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| They were just showing us different moves they would do. When one guy went up like this on the other person you would know that his puppet had won the battle. |
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| They moved differently to show if they were walking, running, etc. |
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| We got to work on our own "elephant puppet" |
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| Beautiful! |
The last place we went to before the long bus ride back was to the Nine-Army Battle Historical Park. We arrived late, but the man who was going to share with us the history of the Nine-Army Battle was still there waiting for us! We quickly went in and sat down to listen to him share all about the battle against Burma. They came in with nine-armies, but King Rama I (late 1700s) led Thailand in victory. It was all in Thai, but our amazing Thai teachers translated it for us!
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| the building |
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| The map of the battles |
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| He was all dressed up like a Thai soldier from the 1700s and our Thai teachers :) |
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| Pretty much everyone! |
After this group photo we were back on the bus- going home. On the way we only could find a 7-Eleven to eat at for dinner! Yes, we had our dinner at 7-Eleven! Then we continued home :)
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