Bangkok - day 6

We went on a tour of Ayuthya which is the ancient capital of thailand.

waking up at 6am to go on tour was extremely painful (even tho it's only 9am in aust).

First stop by bus was the summer palace. the king of thailand and his family go there in the summer to get away from the palace in bangkok. the grounds are quite beautiful but i really liked the architecture - there are many buildings with different influences - the british and chinese buildings were the nicest.



The second stop was a ruin in the ancient capital. When thailand was invaded by the burmese, it was plundered and burnt - hence the ancient city because it was too damaged to rebuild.

There's a lot of culture here. 93% of thai ppl are buddhist with only 1.4% christians. We visited 3 ruins/temples in all.



The final part of the tour was a river cruise with buffet lunch. The river is very polluted and brown... eeeekkk..

The funniest thing was watching these little tug boats tow huge cargos down the river... i thought they were gonna sink!!

daph basically slept most of the cruise back. lol.. typical!





went to the nightmarkets last night.... didnt buy that much... mostly gifts (russ it's christmas for u i think)