Ayutthaya weekend

Saturday morning we headed out with Samart to Ayutthaya. I booked a room with Baan Lotus House that was "our pick" on lonely planet.

View from our window...

Our room was in this house.

We pictured a very little town with a ton of wats (temples) and easy to bike around. It turns out it is a pretty big city so we had Samart drive us around in the afternoon to some wats etc.

The Elephant Kraal

We headed over to a little market to eat... With both got chicken fried rice of course!

Wat #1

Wat # 2

Wat # 3

We walked up into the top part (my thighs are still hurting) and there was a stairway leading down to an unknown place.

Creepy and smelly like bat dung... But we went down. One at a time you stand in this strange hole and lookup at this...

Grand Palace

Huge Buddha inside...

Wat # 4

Look at John with his cute camera strap I found in Alabama!!

Our car- looks like a 4 Runner but the call them Fortuner

Happy hour at the hotel, we have a boat ride around Ayutthaya from 4-6

Tuk-tuk ride to the boat. They crammed 7 of us in there!

Our boat is the one with the orange top, that's our group getting on.

Pics from boat....

 

 

 

Wat #1 boat stop

Days of the week Buddhas

This Buddha was Gigantic!

Squat pot... Not fun

Our boat

Stop #2 on boat

Squat pot again

 

Big party / dinner cruises

Stop # 3

And we are back. A night market has been set up, so we eat and then head to try to see Mao Thai (boxing).

John chicken fried rice

Rebecca (from hotel/ boat) and I got chicken pad Thai.

 

The night market...

Really gross squat pot, almost barfed afterward.

Tuk-tuk ride to the Mao Thai event...

Turns out it was a ceremony, no fighting.

John and I heard back to the hotel and the off for a couple of drinks and music!

Look at all the salt on those fries! The green dip is wasabi and mayo, yum!

When we hand motioned and asked for the check she brought us a pad and pencil. We need to learn Thai!!

We had a great time, got really hot and sweaty but it was really fun!!