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Ayutthaya Slideshow
Ayutthaya
Travel Blogs from Ayutthaya, Thailand
Ayutthaya
We stayed here for a day with Stephane, hiring bikes to cycle around the city's temples. Ayutthaya used to be Thailand's capital before it (and its temples) were destroyed by the Burmese. We saw lots of ruins and lots of Buddhas and had a very authentic ...
Puppies, fried frogs and riffles, Oh My!
... the heat and the civilization. I need my jungles and mountains, not 7/11's on every corners. I took a bus to Ayutthaya, where I spent the day and I am taking the night train to Chiang Mai from here tonight. Ayutthaya is famous for ...
AYUTTHAYA
... Cineplex's and many other stores we didn't know what they were. Not much undeveloped area as Bangkok has over 8 million people and Ayutthaya, the old capital city seem to just about meet each other now. The conductor told us when to get off. Didn't ...
Day 7
Day 7 ------- Well the train journey was not as comfy as we'd hoped! The many fires in the fields and hills meant at one point the train was filled with smoke! The train also seemed to change direction and change engine about 5 times! We ...
Feeling the heat
After our action-packed trip away, Caz and I have been enjoying spending our last few weeks of holiday at home in Tharua. The heat has crept up on us over the last fortnight and is reaching temperatures of about 43 C which, in other words, really is ...
Im in Thailand! Whoo.
... for 6 nights, on Khao San road and then yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, we caught a train north, 1 hour 40 mins, to a place called Ayutthaya. Were only staying here the one night though, it sounded nice in the book. And low and behold it is. The Thai people ...
Ayuthaya
Ayuthaya was the Siamese royal capital for 400 years and is full of ruins from this prosperous era. We spent a couple of days going round the ruined Wats (Buddhist temples) some of which were really impressive with beautiful and serene Buddha sculptures ...
The Old Capital of Thailand
Hello!! We arrived into Ayutthaya on Sunday evening around 10pm. We had called a guesthouse from the railway station in Bangkok, so the lady was awaiting our arrival. Even though we were only an hour North of Bangkok, the weather was ...
Holidays and Festivals
Hello again, it's been a while... now my family have been and gone and I'm home again in Tharua settling back into normal Thai life. Over three weeks ago now, Caz and I spent a restless night on plastic chairs at the huge new airport in bangkok before ...
The New & The Old
... pots, what followed is what Boff would call ‘the dirtiest feed’ we have had during our whole travels, not just Thailand. The man serving the food was lovely and explained that we could have noodles in soup (broth) with pork and shrimps, ...
4. Seeking Lara Croft; Finding See-Saw-Ou
... front, not from the rear," as Rogue Warrior Marcinko would say.] Chedi Chaya Monkhol and almost everything else in Ayutthaya was burned to a crisp in 1767 by, ironically, the ...invading Burmese, after they'd stripped the gold from everything - ...
Ko Chang to Ayutthaya
... a steak house, where we tucked into fantastic steaks. The next day, we had our first experience of Thai healthcare in Ayutthaya. Graham's ear was blocked and he couldn't hear anything so we headed off to the hospital to have it syringed. Within ...
Ayutthaya
28th October After a 4 hour bus journey from Kanchanaburi (unfortunately via Bangkok) we arrived in Ayutthaya late afternoon. We found somewhere to rest our heads and headed out to find a beer and some food. 29th October This was our morning for ...
Discovering the temples of Ayutthaya
For 30 Baht each we took the train via Ayutthaya to Chiang Mai. When we arrived in Ayutthaya the Tuk Tuk divers were circling like bees around us. We negotiated with some of them and took the cheapest one.. This day we checked out several temples, some of ...
Neue Welt in Thailand / New world in Thailand
... Thailand first I went to the Kwai river bridge, then to Ayuthaya and logged in to a quite paradisic Guesthouse. Travelling in Thailand is compared to India or Nepal a dream: Easy traffic, no horning and respected roadrules. Although the humid heat around ...
Travelling to spend time with temples, Ayutthaya
The system for taxis in Bangkok appears to have changed since we were last here, now many taxis are resplendent in pearlescent pink and all appear to be metered! As a result, it is often cheaper to take a taxi than to bargain your way from place to place ...
Rostros, monos, templos, ruinas....
Ya cansados de las pulgas de Chiang Mai, compramos los tickets de bus más temprano que habían hacia Sukhothai, así que a las 7:00 ya estábamos embarcados… El viaje fue tranquilo y muy cómodo; por fin los viajes se transformaban en tiempos ...
Temples, Massages and almost missed trains!
... We made it to the train with a fw minutes to spare to pick up our bags and then ended up waiting for ages because nothing in thailand seems to run on time. The night train to Chiang Mai was surprisingly comfortable. Got a free beer as soon as I sat down. ...
Ayutthaya back to Bangkok
... to normal though after a few minutes. We boarded the overnight train then back to Bangkok then continued on another train to Ayutthaya arriving at around lunch time on Tuesday 20th. This was a small town with only a few westerners around where we stayed ...
Wat City
The bus from Sukothai to Ayutthaya took 7 hours but it stopped for lunch & lunch was included in the price of the ticket (so there it is, go you non-Government buses!!) However, over-helpful and poor English from the ...
Fairy Lights and Pomegranite Margaritas
... elephants that it lasted for the whole time in Ayutthaya, but it shows how much we loved our time at the elephant kraal. Ayutthaya is an island, a city surrounded by a canal. It used to be the capital in the 18th century and then was rubbled ...
After arriving in ayutthaya we found a ...
... amazed at how many ruins there are everywhere! It was absolutely incredible. You can pick any street to go down and find ruins. Ayutthaya was the capital for 400 years before it was moved to Bangkok when the Burmese ravaged it during 1767. It was the ...
We made it through a day of marcus's ...
... we got a glimpse of the friendly Thai culture first hand. There were almost no other white people at the biggest festival that Ayutthaya sees each year, so I think they were happy to entertain us. As with any festival, there are a variety of local ...
Ayuttaya
The power of persuassion
... at other guest houses we looked like English lager louts! The journey took around 2.5 hours and wasn't particularly noteworthy. Upon arrival in Ayutthaya we were dropped on the main backpackers strip. It was a pretty small place so not many options. We'd ...
