After leaving Hanoi in a really bad mood (argument with hotel staff) we took a flight to Bangkok. It was our third time in less than 1 ½ years. We felt only two days was necessary enough for us to experience the city. This visit we decided to get a guest house near the popular backpacker ghetto Khao San Rd. We stayed there for a couple of nights the first time we visited Bangkok, so we were curious to see if anything had changed. I am happy to report nothing has. The road is still lively aka noisy, there a still loads of enthusiastic tourists aka really really drunk foreigners and the street stalls still line the streets aka cheap Thai “bar food” I think Khao San Rd is definitely a guilty pleasure of a lot of backpackers, and after two nights we were certainly ready to move on. Of course during our short stay we had to go to Hanako, which is our favourite facial place located in the main shopping area.
Visiting ruins in Ayuthaya:
We left the hustle and bustle of Bangkok by train to Ayuthaya. We bought a couple of 3rd class tickets that cost combined CAD $1. Since we were in the lowest class we had no assigned seating without air conditioning and packed with passengers. Of course our fellow train passengers were less than happy with our big knapsacks looming over two empty seats.
Eventually we arrived in Ayuthaya four hours later, which was 2 ½ hours behind schedule. We found a really cute guesthouse named P.U Inn which really reminded us of the low key hostels we stayed at in South America.
The city is a former royal capital of Siam so the main reason to stop here is to visit the temple ruins. We hired a sawnghaew (a small pickup truck with seats in the back) for a few hours to take us around to all the ruins. Again, just like in the temples of Angkok they were a mixture of Hinduism and Buddhism. In the past few months we have visiting a lot of ruin site, but Ayuthaya we found to be quite interesting and easy to visit since the ruins were close together. Some of the sites were preserved nicely and during the night they are lit up with lights, something a little different than other places
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| Ayutthaya, Thailand |
~Nicola
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