Exploring Thailands former capital

Trip Start Jan 16, 2011

Trip End Jul 30, 2011

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Flag of Thailand Ayutthaya, Thailand
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

We liked our first impressions of Ayutthaya, a relaxed town, built up around the ruins of Siam's ancient capital. After checking into a very friendly guesthouse, "Tony's Place", where they shouted massive greetings of "Sawasdee Kha" every time you walked in, we went for a night tour of the illuminated ruins.

The next morning, after visiting a cultural museum (where Lloyd was very impressed with the handmade scale models of the old palace and city) we visited in daylight the ruins we could walk to. We took some good pictures but after a while one ruined temple begins to merge with another, so it was back to the guesthouse. After eating good food and drinking probably too many cocktails we spent the evening playing 'who can play the best song on grooveshark', (which obviously Lloyd won) sharing a set of headphones and laughing a lot, the other dinners definately wondered what we were up to!

We frittered away Good Friday doing a relaxed catch up of blog, postcards and planning, and drinking far too much iced lemon tea! That evening we caught the night bus to Chiang Mai, getting probably as much sleep as everyone at home, celebrating on Good Friday night!

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Stairway to heaven?	Offerings left at the temple Comments!	Ruins at dusk Comments!	Ruins at night Comments!
Arty shot 1	Arty shot 2 Comments!	Me and my frozen lemon daquiri Comments!	The famous buddha head Comments!
and from another angle Comments!	Ruins of Wat Mahathat	Another large buddha Comments!	The buddha close up
Some destroyed statues	Head shot

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Samster on

Sooo sorry for the cheesy...not so jokey jokes haha....jus in one of those ya know lol. Still having a great time? thort you might of got slightly fed up n come home by now hehe. Wow amazing stuff, i'm learning far more reading your blogs than i remember from school....thank you :). Great pics too xx

Samster AGAIN on

ps had a great 'trip' to your Dads and Good Friday was one to remember indeedy...missed you!
Lloyd reckon you should get Gem to help you brush up on Noughts and Crosses and we'll have best of 10 when your back :)
Big loves xx