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Today we visited the Grand Palace. The Grand Palace in Bangkok was built in 1782 by King Rama. The Grand Palace was the home of the King and his court and the entire administrative seat of government. This building is so beautiful, the palace is made of jewels and gold. The Grand Palace remained the Royal Family's official residence from 1782 to 1946.

These are only a few pictures of the Grand Palace.

The art work as you can see is amazing and massive. It would be interesting to know what everything means, but it is great tp even be able to just look at it. The Palace is surrounded by high white walls. This consists of several buildings including: the Royal Chapel, Wat Phra Kaeo which houses the Emerald Buddha, the most sacred Buddha image in Thailand. When walking through it looks like there are thousands of eyes looking at you. On arrival i was greeted Thai, which i could not understand, but they realised striaght away that is didn't understand and spoke to me in english. I do have a electronic translater just incase no one spoke english. When i asked for directions i could not understand, so the kind people got a map out and drew the best way to travel, the people are so freindly. The people that where selling us things were very friendly and asked us how we were finding Thailand.