Chang Phueak Gate
Fourteenth-century city gate topped by white elephant statues honoring two servants who saved a king's life.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Chang Phueak Gate opens with two attendants carrying their king across their shoulders as a rival army closed in, somewhere in the late 1300s. You'll hear how king Saen Muang Ma rewarded Ai Ob and Ai Yi for saving him, and why a century later king Tilokaraj chose white elephant statues, not just any monument, to mark the spot. It traces how those statues were rebuilt in 1799 and repainted, and why locals still call this the White Elephant Gate.
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