OoOOwee Ayutthaya and Khao Yai Yayeeaahhhh

First stop outside of Bangkok: Ayutthaya.

There wasn’t much expected for this town. We know that there are a bunch of old temples to look at. While it is fun to see the history of Thailand, looking at all the temples can get monotonous. To make things interesting, we decided to rent bicycles.

I think we rode for MAYBE half a mile before we realized it was going to b a dumb idea, so we went back and upgraded to SCOOTERS!

Scooters made the day much more interesting. If anyone has been to Asia before, you know a majority of people ride scooters around, splitting lanes and such. I have very little scooter/motorcycle experience so it took some time getting used to.

jbd note: This was painfully obvious, since Marvin never switched off his turn signal, almost ran into a parked truck accelerating from 0, and his helmet freakin broke off while we were racing back to beat the rain.

With the scooters, we really got to see everything we wanted to see and more. We did the usual sightseeing of the temples but the highlights of this town was discovering the new foods.

Riding around town, we can see where a lot of the locals like to eat. We just followed the crowds and found two new foods sai mai and the highlight being kǔaytǐaw ruea (boat noodles). These little bowls of noodles are 15 baht, which is about 50 cents a bowl. People would eat 5-10 in one sitting. I don’t think Jeffry has stopped talking about it. We actually went back for dinner too.

After a long delay at Ayutthaya Train Station, we were off to Pak Chong/Khao Yai National Park. We spent two days here. We went into bat caves, watched bats leave their caves, I touched a bunch of huge bugs, trekked the jungle, and looked for wildlife.

bat cave