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Places in King Taksin's footsteps in Ayutthaya

All 17 key places are pinned at their real coordinates. Each page covers the place's history, its story across 5 periods and visiting information.

Linked to King Taksin

TempleWat Choeng Tha★The temple where the boy Sin is said to have studied under Phra Achan Thongdi, before he grew up to be Phraya TakPalaceAncient Royal Palace★Where the young Sin was presented as a royal page, and where some chronicles say King Taksin spent the night after recovering the capitalTempleWat Phu Khao Thong★The plain where Phraya Tak went out to fight the Burmese early in the war, and where the Burmese commander later set up his campTempleWat Yai Chai Mongkhon★Where Phraya Tak and Phraya Phetchaburi stationed their flotilla during the floods at the end of 1766TempleWat Sangkhawat★The river battlefield where Phraya Phetchaburi was killed, in the fight that changed Phraya Tak's mind about defending the cityTempleWat Phichai Songkhram★Phraya Tak's last camp at Ayutthaya, and the starting point of his breakout through the Burmese siege on 3 January 1767CommunityBan Khao Mao★The line of march on the first night after the breakout, the night Phraya Tak saw the city on fireFort / campPho Sam Ton camp★The main Burmese camp north of the city, which King Taksin retook at the end of October 1767

On the city island

Fort / campMaha Chai Fortress, Hua RoThe corner of the wall the Burmese undermined with tunnels and fire until it collapsed on the night the city fell, 7 April 1767TempleWat Phra Si SanphetThe palace temple whose gold-covered Phra Si Sanphet image was burned and stripped of its gold on the night the city fellTempleWat MahathatThe great temple at the centre of the city island that was burned, its Buddha images beheaded, when the city fellFort / campPhet FortressThe river-mouth fort at the south-east corner, on the side where the Chinese volunteers' junks were trapped by a Burmese iron chain

Off the city island

TempleWat Mae Nang PluemThe bank opposite Maha Chai Fortress where the Burmese camped to attack the city; what remains is Khok Phama, the "Burmese Mound", near the templeTempleWat Na Phra MenThe temple the Burmese used as a position for firing on the palace, which is why it escaped the fire on the night the city fellTempleWat Phanan ChoengThe temple of the riverside Chinese community, near the camp of the Chinese volunteers at Khlong Suan Phlu in the war of the fallCommunityPortuguese SettlementThe Portuguese community whose camp fell in March 1767; some of its soldiers went on to serve in King Taksin's armyTempleWat ChaiwatthanaramThe riverside temple on the west bank that served as a stronghold on the southern side, holding out against the Burmese for nine days before it fell