Lop Buri monkey festival

Well we decided to take a taxi to Lop Buri last weekend to see the monkey festival. We had heard several good things about it so we got a few friends together and made the trek on Friday night. On Saturday we wanted to see some of the old ruins of the one time capital of Thailand.  There was many reminders of the old walled city but the majority was overrun by these monkeys.

 There were quite a few of these creatures around the site and they were quite friendly. Of course if you let them, they will want to play on you.

 

It was called a monkey feast and every year the local gather food and prepare food for the monkeys. So this is just one the monkeys who was first to the feast.

Well we sure did see a new meaning of Thai message monkey style. It seems this guy is living right as it receives a grooming before the big feast.

Of course all this food makes even a monkey thirsty and instead of the ready avialble water supply this monkey prefers his Pepsi. Even though it says EST on the cup that is the local Pepsi company in Thailand.

Well we did see some nice old ruins as well. This was the administration building back in the day, were the local elders who ran the village were housed.

Once we were done monkeying around, we wanted to see the Sunflower fields. We had heard that there was some very beautiful sunflower fields with a hill backdrop. The sunflower fields are likely used to make sunflower oil as the highest yeild commodity. I guess there was some money in these fields as we noticed the army was present for their marches. They all said hello as they walked by, certainly a very friendly army.

 

Of course a nice stroll through the fields yielded some very beautiful photos to remember our visit..

 

Another day in Thailand..