BANGKOK: Another disrespectful tourist posing for pictures among the monuments of Ayutthaya has drawn the ire of the Thai Facebook community. The unidentified woman, believed to be Asian, was pictured sitting in the lap of a large Buddha statue at Wat Yai Chai Mongkol. Nopporn said the photographer was on an upper deck of the Chai Mongkol Pagoda on Wednesday when he noticed the woman sitting on the sacred Buddha image below. King Naresuan built the pagoda to celebrate a battle victory and the Buddha statue, Phra Ratana Nimman, was added in 1961 on the pagoda’s northeast side. Wat Yai Chai Mongkol deputy abbot Phrakru Sirichai Mongkol said there were too few temple officials to ensure that tourists behaved properly.

Source: The Star March 09, 2018 06:00 UTC