Kantary Ayutthaya

... are 50 baht a piece to visit them. Wat exactly are you paying for though? They don't look like they have been touched in over 500 years, so there's no restoration work going on! The grass doesn't even need cutting, cos the thousands of tourists who come through here each week trample it into submission! Still, the Wats do look pretty cool. Except the Grand Palace - which is largely a 1ft tall wall surrounding 3ft tall remains of pillars, and a load of grass (unless ...

... des particuliers ont cache dans un endroit et dont ils ont indique les coordonnees gps avec une seul indice comme "tout pres d'une fenetre" ou "d'un arbre". C'etait vraiment marrant de se balader dans les temples en cherchant ces artefacts (que l'on n'a malheureusement pas trouve car ils n'etaient plus la mais le principe reste fun).<br>Le soir j'ai paisse une excellente soiree avec Christian et Dani (Christiant avait degote une ...

... in all kinds of sports, like takraw. This is game like volleyball, but you can't use your hands or arms to touch the ball. It takes amazing coordination. The decorations were crazy. They had huge speakers everywhere, some 10 meters tall. They had to have big trucks to bring them in! It was kind of ironic actually. With the little resources and money this school has compared to Garfield, they completely out did anything I've seen. You ...

... that we are History majors so we dig this stuff, but that doesnt mean that everyone else does. SO, I added some brief descriptions to each picture but thats about all Im going to do. If you are interested in learning more about the ruins at Ayutthaya please feel free to email us. It was a very fun day and really cool to see the history of a people that we currently live amongst. Thanks for reading!<br><br>:-D :-D

... enogh money for too long in Pattaya and 2) getting to see a poorly-prepared mans Angkor Wat. Not on the malaria tablets meant no Cambodia. So we had an early rise for our 7.00am train...which slept in for and took the 8.25 train instead. The lads were off at lunch time.<br><br>Friday 25/09/09<br>The lads' Pattaya blog is as follows:<br>They went to Pattaya on the friday......<br>.....and came to Bangkok on the Monday.<br>

... and purses from these leaves. Including patterns and colors. Think about it. You have to go and find these leaves from plants that grow in the water. Cut and dry them out. Dye certain ones if necessary. Then of course, have the skill and patience to weave these into a basket or little knick-knack that you probably wouldn't give a second glance to at a market for maybe 50 baht.<br><br>We saw some incredible paintings. We were shown the essential first step of traditional ...

... has been through. Then we went to see some temples and pray. I felt slightly out of place seeing as I'm not Buddhist, or any religion for that matter. People usually assume I'm Christian here. Then we went to the ruins of 3 different wats and palaces, where we spent quite a few hours. I wish I'd had a whole day, just to explore the rubble and all the different places, it's so big! One of the wats has hundreds of buddhas lining the entire palace. Most of the pictures are from the ...

... we realized that it is way to big to walk, so we had to hitchhike with the funniest Thais ever :) Instead of seeing the waterfalls etc they spent all stops powdering their faces, but alright ;) <br>However, I saw my first monkeys in wildlife!!!, beautiful waterfalls and we were eating blessed dragonfruit on the back of a pick-up on a speed of 120km/h. Trust me, it's an experience!! :)<br><br>So, that was it in Ayutthaya, loved the nights at the bar :)

... Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It included the city-states of Hong Kong and Macau, too. I put markers on the book and for countries which I have been to, I stuck on red post-its while I marked those I haven't yet visited with the color blue.<br><br>I can almost mark the book with blues as I recently embarked on a travel to Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam. This trip was taken with a new set of travel buddies ...

... the Phubade. So here we are at Tony's Place again, after 3 months on the road in Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. It's as lovely now as it was then, and we've had a well earned day off cycling, most of the day having been spent looking at flight information to South America, watch this space. Tomorrow we head back to Bangkok where we'll stay just 2 nights and then south to Malaysia for a spot of snorkelling and diving. Laters