Ayuthaya

From the river boat

Christmas is coming

The elephant farm in Ayuthaya

Pieces of the world heritage

Happy birthday dear king of Thailand! Today is the king's birthday and at least 11 tv channels are broadcasting the same show from the festives..

After we had had breakfast Joni came to the hotel room to read and I went to get a thai-massage across the street. The whole episode had a funny start: My masseuse was a determined looking little man who went to get me an cotton outfit for the treatment. He was taking the clothes from the shelf when the old lady from the reception screamed: "No! Big size!" and started laughing. Thanks a lot. haha. It is okey though, most thai women are a lot smaller than I am (and if they are as tall as I am, they are not actually women..if you know what I mean).  Anyway, while I was waiting for my massage I could hear the man next to me making painful noises and I could hear the same sound if someone is cracking their knuckles (and his masseuse was a woman..). The massage was rather painful but I also felt rather good afterwards. The one hour massage cost 159baht so that is about 4 euros. Not bad at all.

Ami came to pick us up from the hotel at noon as promised and she told us two of her friends would like to take us to Ayuthaya later in the afternoon. We were happy about these news because we were not able to go there on Friday as I was feeling a bit sick. So, we first took the river boat to the fashion mall called Platinum and then headed to Ayuthaya by car with Ms. Ami, Ms. Jeab and Mr. Dang.

Aythaya used to be the capital of Thailand and it has been registered as a world heritage by the World Heritage Comittee (UNESCO). The ruins of the city were quite impressive and it was nice to get out from the busy Bangkok. We had a great time with our new Thai-friends and hopefully we will get to hang out with them if we come back to Bangkok in January. Also, Ami called pretty much all of her friends all over Thailand and told them we might be paying a visit to their cities. She was a great travel guide all in all.

Noom will give us a ride to Pattaya tomorrow and we will stay there for one night before going to the island of Koh Chang. Today was a great day and now we are quite exhausted, but very happy!