Right next door to the University is the Museum. . .
I want to begin with what I was most impressed with that day and which happened to be just about the last exhibit we saw. It was the Royal Funeral Carriage. What made it even more special was that Deb had gotten to see it in action this past April when the King's Aunt had her funeral.
Do you see how close you are allowed to stand next to this carriage? I swear, they trust you closer to their national treasures than they trust you in their grocery stores. I have been followed around by the grocery security when I take too long to read labels! And yet I am allowed to stand within inches of this beautiful carriage.
This is the lift that they use to raise the body up into the carriage. They don't lay the body down like we do. They let the body ride standing up.
This is the King's Aunt who passed away on July 27, 2011. Her name was HRH Princess Bejaratana. They hold the body for a certain number of days for official mourning and then wait for an auspicious day for the funeral and cremation. Her funeral was set for April 9, 2012. My friend Deb watched the funeral dress rehearsal. Here is a picture of the dress rehearsal, but you can go on You Tube, click on videos and then type in HRH Princess Bejaratana Thailand
then pick one of the funeral ones. You should then see some of the buildings that I saw and the carriages that carried her body and the other dignataries.
Below are other views of the carriage. They had at least 3 of these carriages, maybe 4.
These are called umbrellas and they are carried on either side of the carriage.
This is where the ashes of the body either go or something about the cremation of the body. The man that explained it didn't speak very good English, but he tried, and I thanked him very much for trying to help explain it to us.
So that's it for this blog. The next one will show some of the other things I saw at the museum, but I hope that you will check out those websites. They are pretty cool and help to explain what I saw.
Bye for now!! Linda
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