Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon had been rebuilt a fair bit (especially buddha statues) which was great because it was the first big temple we visited in Ayuthaya, and it gave us a good idea of what some of the less intact complexes had once looked like.
Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon had some very unique features for us - lots of intact buddha statues, worn bricks on the staircase to the central tower (chedi), a place on the top of the central tower that you can enter to see golden statues, great views from the top of the whole complex. It was also very much still functioning and in operation today - there were monk's quarters off to the side where monks live (and which show one of Ayuthaya's other specialties - old style wood houses that are raised off the ground).
One little temple in the complex is popular for people to pray to for kids, hence the hello kitty stuffed animals inside it.
And that little green thing that Sam is holding is an unripe mango that fell off a mango tree in thecomplex.
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