Travelling for a month in the Thailand southern and central islands, spending most of our time on the beach or underwater, we felt we need to get to know a bit of this country’s history and that is why we got to Ayutthaya.

The train’s journey from Bangkok took us only 1h but it was quite interesting as we sat opposite a Thai woman and her daughter which tried for the whole journey to talk to us (in Thai) leaving us exhausted to smile at her trying to explain that we would love to have a chat but we didn’t understand a thing of what she was saying and even when we took out our phrase book and pointed to her “sorry, I don’t understand” she was happy to carry on …. so why stopping her.

As usual, once arrived at the train station, we found ourselves surrounded once more by all taxi drivers but we decided to head on foot to see what would be our options. Just at the end of the small road opposite the train station, there was a ferry crossing the main river that encircles the heart of Ayutthaya and for only 4 THB dropped us to the other site.

After check in at the delightful Baan Lotus Guesthouse we determined to investigate the ruins of this World Heritage listed town (since1991) on two wheels: hiring a bicycle at just 30 THB each per daytime was absolutely the finest and more convenient way to enjoy a relaxing daytime zooming around the numerous historic sites, you only need to observe out not to bump into one of the few elephants taking tourists in and around the city.

There are thus numerous ruins to be seen in Ayutthaya which could sustain you occupied at least for a pair of days. We squeezed in our ‘tour de france’ several palaces generally within reach of the Grand Palace (included, called also the Ancient Palace), like the Wat Pra Si Sanphet, Wat Mahathat, Wat Ratchaburana, Wat Phra Ram, Wat Lokayasutharam (a big 42mt reclining Buddha) and few more, enough to absorb the history of this put and leave us some time to get our hands on some tasty bbq prawn and other delicious dishes at the local night market.

Definitely magical a visit to the ruins when the sun goes down, you will be amazed by the colours’ tone reflected by the sunset.

We were lucky to catch a glimpse of this 2mt long reptile (no idea how it is called) roaming around the ruins at Phra Ram Park.

Arhur Monderos is working in a company as antivirus software specialist and he runs his cool blog where he helps you to choose best antivirus software for you computer.

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