Ayutthaya one of the ancient capitals of Thailand. We stayed in a small guesthouse called Tony's Place, which was an old fashioned Thai Teak house on stilts. Our room was cheap although the bathroom was still strange and had a door that looked like it belonged on a cattle shed! Our first night was planned to be quiet as we were tired, but it never quite works out that way! There was a tiny little Jazz bar next door that was quite expensive (well by our standard ...

Our final ancient Thai city. First we arrived in Pitsanulok on the train and we planned to stay here as the books said Sukhothai itself was a bit dull. We found a room that looked great, cheap and big windows so we could see out...big mistake! By the time we woke up next morning we were overcooked with the heat! So we decided it would be better to be closer to what we came to see and moved to Sukhothai. We found a small guest house called TR which was brilliant...

As we only spent a day here this will be a short one but it was brilliant! Like i say we got the train from Ayutthaya to Phitsanulok and stopped off here on the way just to have a look around. We got to Ayutthaya station in time to take the early train but when we found out the price difference, we caught the later train, so we sat around for 2 hours then it was late so we sat around some more. before we finally got under way. However the train took longer than ...

We finally left Bangkok...YAY!!! We caught the bus north west to Kanchanaburi which took a couple of hours with no air con :( but we made it and its quite nice. When we got off the bus it was scortching hot and as usual we were accoseted by tuk-tuk and taxi drivers. One bloke offered to take us to look round as many guest houses as we wanted for 40 baht (about 60p) on his tiny little rickshaw type thing! So with our two massive rucksacks hanging off the back and ...

We finally left Bangkok...YAY!!! We caught the bus north west to Kanchanaburi which took a couple of hours with no air con :( but we made it and its quite nice. When we got off the bus it was scortching hot and as usual we were accoseted by tuk-tuk and taxi drivers. One bloke offered to take us to look round as many guest houses as we wanted for 40 baht (about 60p) on his tiny little rickshaw type thing! So with our two massive rucksacks hanging off the back and ...