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Ayutthaya Slideshow
Ayutthaya
Travel Blogs from Ayutthaya, Thailand
i'm melting!
... from the ridiculous heat and humidity outside (note that it says it feels like 50 degrees due to the humidity). i'm in ayutthaya now after hopping on an evening train from bangkok. it was a horrible ride because i had unknowingly purchased a standing ...
Leaving Bangkok and Ayutthaya
... and scary. I have a good ear for accents and I could hear a distinct difference between the accent in Bangkok and in Ayutthaya, was very interesting to realize something I had never really thought about before, that in any language you still have funny ...
Phitsanoluk to Ayutthaya
Decided to travel by train south to Ayutthaya. Left at 10 and arrived at about 1.45. Found a nice guesthouse in the backpacker ghetto, and then went for a walk around town. Don and I have been here before, and saw the temples outside the ...
Christmas Greetings!
There was a sense of occasion in the air this morning as a winterly wind blew bitterly enough for me to have to rake to the back of my wardrobe and pull out my only jumper - which I havn't worn since Chiang Mai in our ridiculously highly ...
Two English Camps and a Looming Date...
... ;atmosphere. We arrived home again on Monday and since then have been joining the teachers at their English seminar in Ayutthaya - been learning all about phonetics, grammer and lexcial structures along with them; we did their English exam aswell ...
Arac Attack! ;) ... & Ancient Temples
... it was a rapid train and it needed about 5 Minutes less to reach Bangkok ;) Nach einer 15B-Zugfahrt bin ich um 3 in Ayutthaya angekommen und hab gleich im ersten Hotel eingecheckt, wo ich das Zimmer fuer 1 Nacht ok fand - Tony's Place. Wirklich ein ...
This is tough
Hello, Ok so the last blog was Jesse talking about being in Bangkok. We are now in Ayuttahaya and I must admit that over the last couple of days, I have thought that this was the most stupidest thing we could have ever done and that we should go home! ...
Ayuthaya - dawna stolica Krolestwa Siam
Do Ayuthayi dotarlismy po poludniu, szybko znalezlismy hotelik (a w zasadzie hotelik znalazl nas, bo wlasciciel zaczepil nas na ulicy) i poszlismy "odbebnic" ;) zwiedzanie. Co tu wiele pisac - dla wielbicieli zabytkow to na pewno jest cos, dla ns ...
So this is it...
... gorgeous as ever and gave us a nice send off! We have our final extra class this evening then tomorrow we will go to Ayutthaya to return our work permits. It feels impossible that the time has come round already and I know driving away from ...
Bangkok (again) and Ayuttahaya
... heat hit in. After a bike ride of around 45 minutes we arrived at one of the most imposing ancient Buddhist monasteries in Ayutthaya located in the west on the Chao Phraya River. It was established by King Prasatthing in 1630 and was made in his ...
Ayuthaya
Iz Kanchanaburija, kjer sva spoznavala tajsko zgodovino iz obdobja 2. svetovne vojne, sva krenila proti Ayuthayi, ki je bila tajska prestolnica od 14. do 18. stoletja. V 18. Stoletju so jo zasedli burmanski osvajalci in posledice njihovega opustosenja so ...
Home Sweet Home
... to Tharua. The conductor refused to believe that we were going there, lol, he kept saying "Tharua? Are you sure? You mean Ayutthaya? Farang don't go to Tharua, Farang go to Lop Buri or Ayutthaya." We finally managed to convince him that we really did ...
THAI NEW YEAR
So, many reasons why thai new year is so epic. 1. It lasts not just one day but 3 whole says (13-16th) 2. It is a HUGE freaking water fight!!!!! that happens throughout every town and everyone gets involved. 3. it is also representational and beautiful ...
Ayutthaya the once pround capital of ...
... part of this errand was taking the sky train, Bangkok's answer to a subway. The people here in Ayutthaya are very friendly and happy. We now know why Thailand is known as the 'country of smiles'. Our guest house, Tony's place, is very nice. Tony ...
The first stop on our way up North
We woke up early to get the train from Bangkok to Ayutthaya, paid 20 Baht each for the 1.5 hour journey in 3 rd class, which wasn't as bad as we expected (ticket said 'standee' so we were relieved when the train arrived with seats!) hot and sweaty journey ...
Exploring Ancient Ayutthaya
... nbsp; After breakfast, we rented bikes and started on our way to see the ruins of the ancient city. Ayutthaya is a former capital of Thailand and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the ruins it contains. The city is divided ...
Life as usual
Here I am again, drawing ever closer to our fifth month anniversary... Our brief trip to Chiang Mai suceeded in packing a visit to a Chiang Mai school, various markets, the Royal Flora flower show, a night safari, an incredible temple, camping ...
Zweitaelteste Hauptstadt Thailands
... jedem Tempel. Meistens beherbergen die Tempel mehrere kleine Budda Statuen, die man besichtigen und anbeten kann. Ayutthaya ist eine kleine verschlafene Stadt in der man wunderbar mit einheimischen feiern geht und sich tagsueber ununterbrochen ...
Best Day
Today was one of the best days of my life. We are both so fortunate to have had this experience at Elephant stay. We never want to leave! I think it may actually be Andrews calling in life to work with animals - I have never seen him so sprightly at ...
Wats Goin' On
Thankfully only a short train ride from Bangkok, Ayutthaya is the former Thai capital and loaded with Wats (buddhist temples cum monasteries). I say thankfully as our berth on the train was a third class sweat-fest. Why is it we always sit under the ...
Night train...
Second day in the roasting Ayutthaya, going around ancient ruins and big Buddha statues. Chilling there in the evening before to catch the night train to Chiang Mai. It was late but not too bad. We couldn't wait for a shower...but too bad! We had to ...
Ayutthaya
Days 8&9 Finally, I ventured outside Bangkok! On Friday morning, I made the short trip from Bangkok to Ayutthaya by train. The journey lasted about an hour and forty minutes, covering about 70 km and costing a whopping 47 cents (give or take a few ...
Quarter of the way...
... him off at the station so he's on the long journey back this evening. On Saturday we were invited to join the school trip to Ayutthaya which was fun though tiring! We visited about 6 or 7 temples throughout the day - being the old capital, it is a very ...
Happy birthday Dave
2nd May 2009 Tony's Place (again) Ayutthaya, Thailand Very hot and sweaty Wednesday: Phon - Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) (125 kms) Thursday: Nakhon Ratchasima - Pak Chong (90 kms) Yesterday: Pak Chong - Saraburi - Ayutthaya (140 ...
Thailand Ruins
After being delayed by the King of Thailand, we hopped on a 3rd class train to the old capital of Ayuthaya. Although the ride was slow and excrutiatingly hot during the stops, it was a relaxing rest from the bustle of Bangkok. We bought some wonderful ...
Ayutthaya by motorbike
enooooough temples!!! Our eyes HURT!!!! We feel like we have visited all (400) in Ayutthaya. Our legs hurt too, even though we drove mostly by motorbike. Don’t know how all those tourists on the bicycles manage. I can’t write more about the ...
Bus to Ayutthaya
... time didn't get boring as the Thai were very interested to talk and there were two European couples too. We arrived in Ayutthaya just past lunchtime when the thermometer must have hit close to 40degrees Celsius. Luckily this time we knew that the hostel ...
Ayutthaya - Ancient Capital
... class train with the warm air coming through the open windows was actually better than the air con carriage we had taken before. Ayutthaya is actually an Island that's been naturally formed by three rivers meeting. So on arrival we took a ferry over to ...