Ayutthaya

Monday 11th - Tuesday 12th September 2017

Monday

Following on from the waterfalls, we had about a 3 and a half hour drive to Ayutthaya so we ended up checking in at around 7 in the evening. We hadn't eaten in a while and were borderline starving to death so a heap of us got tuk tuks down to the night market for food. One of the tuk tuks had multicoloured lights and played the same bassy song over and over... super lit! 😂 When we arrived I asked Nutty what she would recommend, and so Emma and I ended up sharing a Pad Thai and Tom Yum soup, everything was so delicious and cost us the equivalent of about £2 each... crazy cheap! 

Tuesday

It was an early rise this morning as we were off on our morning bike tour around the city. We saw some pretty cool temples, learning about the history of the place. I believe this was the second (could be the third I can't quite remember now!) capital of Thailand, and the royal palace used to be here during the reign of 33 Thai kings. When they moved on, they burnt the palace for 7 days so that no one could steal anything for themselves or something along the lines of that! It was pretty hard to hear the guy as there's so many of us and he had a quiet voice! The bike ride was actually a lot better than I thought it would be, that was until my back brakes stopped working properly and my chain came off too... luckily all the rubbish bikes at centerparcs have taught me how to sort that out quickly!  We then had free time until 7 so I literally just lazed in the pool with some of the others, grabbing food from 711 as I ate so much at the buffet lunch! We then climbed aboard the overnight train, and it was actually much nicer than I anticipated it to be! We were all in one carriage, so it wasn't as private as the one we went on in China, but it didn't seem like it was going to be that bad, other than the fact they leave a few lights on in the carriage which is going to be super annoying! Played cards against humanity for a bit, but wasn't anywhere nearly as funny as when I play it with the girls from uni, so I went and chatted with a few of the others for a bit before heading to bed.