Comments on: Thailand prepares more sites for the world heritage list http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2009/06/30/thailand-prepares-sites-world-heritage-list/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thailand-prepares-sites-world-heritage-list Archaeology news from Southeast Asia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sathyamoorthy.U http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2009/06/30/thailand-prepares-sites-world-heritage-list/#comment-939 Sathyamoorthy.U Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:26:15 +0000 http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/?p=2041#comment-939 I fully endorse Andy's suggestion. In fact, the Srivijaya empire's trunk route for transoceanic trade in south east asia started with the first entry port at Takuapa (oldname Takola) in the Andamans. Thus Takuapa, Chaiya, Surathani, Nakorn si Thammarat, are the main centres which formed an integral part of the Srivijaya empire which stretched beyond Malaysia . Very soon Malaysia is submitting their request for including their Bujang Valley (Kedah) area to be a UNESCO world heritage site. It is therefore in the fitness of things that Thailand takes up these centres in "silkroute of the south" as its next agenda for UNESCO. Historical importance of Takuapa is enormous. There were settlements of international merchant community in thhis zone, and mor evidences are being gathered by archaeological finds. This area has both tangible as well as intangible resources to be declared a World heritage complex involving 4 cities. This zone hasits own cultural uniqueness ,an intermingling of Buddhist, Hindu as well as islamic influences,places this entire zone in a totally different footing. Steps are afoot to build a gigantic temple for the majestic Mahavishnu statue with Sridevi and Bhoodevi found at the Takuapa zone. A foundation has already been registered to undertake this gigantic sacred effort with the cooperation of all the communities in the Andaman zone, including interested members from Malaysia. Help is sought from the authoities in India too to help this cause. A University is also being conceived at this zone. All the wellwishers of Andaman area must lend support to move the Government of Thailand to promote the cause of declaring this zone as World Heritage site by taking appropriate preparatory steps. I fully endorse Andy’s suggestion. In fact, the Srivijaya
empire’s trunk route for transoceanic trade in south east asia started with the first entry port at Takuapa (oldname
Takola) in the Andamans. Thus Takuapa, Chaiya, Surathani, Nakorn si Thammarat, are the main centres which formed an integral part of the Srivijaya empire which stretched
beyond Malaysia . Very soon Malaysia is submitting their request for including their Bujang Valley (Kedah) area to be a UNESCO world heritage site.

It is therefore in the fitness of things that Thailand takes up these centres in “silkroute of the south” as its next agenda for UNESCO. Historical importance of Takuapa
is enormous. There were settlements of international merchant community in thhis zone, and mor evidences are being gathered by archaeological finds. This area has
both tangible as well as intangible resources to be declared a World heritage complex involving 4 cities. This zone hasits own cultural uniqueness ,an intermingling of Buddhist, Hindu as well as islamic influences,places this entire zone in a totally different footing.

Steps are afoot to build a gigantic temple for the majestic Mahavishnu statue with Sridevi and Bhoodevi found at the
Takuapa zone. A foundation has already been registered to undertake this gigantic sacred effort with the cooperation of all the communities in the Andaman zone, including interested members from Malaysia. Help is sought from the authoities in India too to help this cause.

A University is also being conceived at this zone.
All the wellwishers of Andaman area must lend support to
move the Government of Thailand to promote the cause of
declaring this zone as World Heritage site by taking appropriate preparatory steps.

]]> By: Andy http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/2009/06/30/thailand-prepares-sites-world-heritage-list/#comment-938 Andy Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:46:28 +0000 http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/?p=2041#comment-938 There's a lot of new ideas for World Heritage submissions in Thailand showing up in the press and then disappearing, and never to be seen at least in the tentative list at UNESCO. But nevertheless, there are still lots of sites in Thailand IMHO worthy of becoming a world heritage, and those Srivijaya remains in southern Thailand is clearly one of it. I blogged on the <a href="http://myunseenthailand.blogspot.com/2009/02/wat-mahathat-nakhon-si-thammarat.html" rel="nofollow">Wat Mahathat in Nakhon Si Thammarat</a> once, and also the historical sites in Chaiya (Surat Thani) are very interesting. I just hope they won't use the fame then to introduce or raise the entrance fees then. There’s a lot of new ideas for World Heritage submissions in Thailand showing up in the press and then disappearing, and never to be seen at least in the tentative list at UNESCO. But nevertheless, there are still lots of sites in Thailand IMHO worthy of becoming a world heritage, and those Srivijaya remains in southern Thailand is clearly one of it. I blogged on the Wat Mahathat in Nakhon Si Thammarat once, and also the historical sites in Chaiya (Surat Thani) are very interesting. I just hope they won’t use the fame then to introduce or raise the entrance fees then.

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