Lopburi is one of Thailand’s oldest cities and was also a former capital of the country. Lopburi is particularly famous for the monkeys (macaques) that overrun the Old Town. When we arrived at Lopburi train station located in Old Town, there wasn’t a single taxi or tuk tuk to be found but there were packs of monkeys running around everywhere.
We stayed at a hotel in the New Town but even there we couldn’t escape the monkeys. There were large monkey statues at the front of the hotel and also all around the pool and restaurant area. At first glance the restaurant and pool area looked really busy – until you looked closer and saw that it was the monkey statues wearing strange painted on outfits!!
We found the ruins at Lopburi a little disappointing in comparison to the other ruins that we had seen at Ayutthaya, Phanom Rung and Sukhothai, but we found the monkeys’ antics extremely entertaining.
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