A trip to an ancient city and monkey town [1]

There are many ancient cities in Thailand, Ayutthaya, Lopburi, Kanchanaburi, Sukhothai and so on. I dont know how many exactly ancient cities we have here. I have been to fews of them.

And the trip Im gonna write about here today is a trip to Ayutthaya and Lopburi, 2 different provinces. Ayutthaya is an hour away from Bangkok and Lopburi is another hour away from Ayutthaya.

We decided to take the train trip. On Friday 20th of March after, we went to Rangsit train station which is not far from my house. We got to the station at 7 pm. I asked for 2 a/c seat but the ticket guy gave us free ones and said it would come soon so we didnt have to wait long. Because it was only one hour away we got it. The train was crowded and we stood till we got to Ayutthaya at 9 pm.

We walked to the hotel where I stayed there before, Krungsri River. It only hundreds meters away from the train station. We aksed them to check in for 2 nights. The next day we took Tuk Tuk in front of the hotel to the scooter place. We rented a scooter for a day for 300 baht and then rode it around the town.

As shown in the map, you will see the island which was the Kingdom of Krungsri Ayutthaya hundreds years ago. The train station is outside of the island and also the hotel we stayed in.

The first place we went to was the ancient city. We parked the scooter at the market in the Phra Sri Sanphet temple. We had breakfast there. Yep, Ka Prao Gai with Kai Dow. You will see lots of food there.

After breakfast we went to the temple. There was a big golden statue of Buddha there. Outsite the temple was the big ancient city. I have never explored the whole area cause it was always hot and I think if you wanna walk around that place you will have to spend more than an hour.

See more photos here and here.

When we were done, we moved to the other temple near there. On the way we saw people riding an elephant. Looked fun!

The next place we were gonna go was a temple with the big laying Buddha. The temple was outside of the island. We rode across the river and got to the temple, Wat Yai Chai Monkol.

That place was the last place for us for that day. After that we went back to the hotel to clean ourselves and then drove the scooter to the town for dinner and to return the scooter. We took Tuk Tuk back and rest for the next adventure we were gonna have the next day.

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