{"id":2463,"date":"2015-10-15T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2015-10-15T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:32:04","slug":"lopburi-city-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2463-lopburi-city-monkeys","title":{"rendered":"Lopburi, the city of Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Thailandee.com<\/em><\/a> since the beginning \u00a0are probably already very familiar with the town of <strong>Lopburi and its\u00a0horde of monkeys<\/strong> (actually, there is\u00a0two rival gangs) who literally invaded the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2837\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lopburi-monkey-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Lopburi\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lopburi<\/strong> is a provincial city located 140 kilometers from Bangkok. The city became famous and welcomes many tourist because of the monkeys who took their neighborhoods in the streets and some temples. Inhabitants try to get along with them. It must be said that the primates have settled there for centuries. If in Western countries, we will probably have\u00a0hunted or sterilized them to make them disappear gradually, in Thailand, the locals\u00a0have learned to live with them and even organize a large buffet for the monkeys every year.<\/p>\n<p>If they make life difficult for locals, they also bring them a flow of curious\u00a0tourist who want to discover <strong><em>&#8220;the city of monkeys&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>. Especially grouped at Phra Prang San Yod, a charming little Khmer ruin with a lovely stone Buddha image, the monkeys are not shy and jump\u00a0without hesitation on tourists to steal them food but also anything they can catch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ji9SZbz0cMs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the time\u00a0visitors only stay a few hours in <strong>Lopburi<\/strong>, time to see the monkeys and go. But\u00a0the city has more to offer. I like the atmosphere here, especially in the evening. Here you can\u00a0feel the real Thailand. The Thailand with\u00a0aerobics group classes in the school yard, with a small night market installing its tables along the railway, where you can have dinner at the White House under the big tree with a Thai music background and the stars above your head&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And there are other <a href=\"\/en\/cities\/to-see-to-visit-in-lopburi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>monuments to visit in Lopburi<\/strong><\/a>, certainly much less interesting and renovated than Ayutthaya temples, only 60 kilometers away. So if you are not in hurry, why don&#8217;t you try to stay here at least one night ?<\/p>\n<p><em>You can find all practical information about the city, its hotels and guesthouses, the visits to make, transport ect &#8230;on our page dedicated to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/lopburi\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lopburi in Thailand<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who follow Thailandee.com since the beginning \u00a0are probably already very familiar with the town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visit-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}