Heading North Through Thailand

Trip Start Feb 07, 2005
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Trip End Aug 24, 2005


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Sunday, February 13, 2005

Just two hours north of Bangkok, Ayuthaya's calm, tranquil lifestyle is a stark contrast to the chaos encountered in Bangkok. It was, for many centuries, the capital city of Thailand; encircled by three rivers, the 'island' was a significant trading post that attracted the attentions of many foreign parties. History reveals that the Burmese bombarded the town for several years forcing the Thai leaders to abandon their town. The war had destroyed most of the Wats (temples) to ruins.

Through the very pleasant and helpful PU guest house, we organised an evening cruise along the Old Lopburi River where we encountered several of Ayuthaya's incredible temple remains. Being completely ignorant to the art of digital photography, if that is even possible, I neglected to increase the pixel size from 0.3M, hence why the photos are officially rubbish, sorry!!

Mel and I also fed some chained up elephants, it wasn't a very nice sight or something we really wanted to do but seeing them like that kind of makes you wonder how much they are actually looked after.

Later that day we caught the over night train up north to Chiang Mai.
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