Almost ready to go

Tickets for planes and trains are booked, route is more or less clear, adventures planned and now we are boosting our immune systems with some necessary vaccines. So just some final sprints forBaca selengkapnya
Good to go ;-)

Nice and lightly packed. Good spirited
Now for the long trip

After lunch brake in Kopenhagen which I know is no closer to our destination… we’re now boarding the long flight in style
Yes weve landed

28 degree at 7 in the morning. No sleep 😴 on the plane so it is going to be a very long day. But energised by the first impressions.
Thai treatment

Since we cannot check in at the hotel yet we are strolling the streets and found the national thai massage accademy and treated ourselves to the best massages ever.
Some impressions of our first day

Sweaty and tired we strawled through a bit of bangkok. Even spotting a royal in real life (tomorrow is the big celebration of the kings birthday and there is pictures of him all over town). And we putBaca selengkapnya
Getting in the zone

Well different timezone, skipping a date and than being dropped in a different climate, the body says WTF! Some deal with it by sleeping others enjoy a cocktail in the perfect evening air
And than we come alive

And so do the thai!
Enlightenment

Well they have plenty of buddahs to get there
Streetlife

Singing. Sorry no swimming in the rain

Wat Suthat Thep Wararam

Big reclining buddah Wat Pho

Cockroach snakes and scorpion for dinner

We stick to the more modest fabulous fried dishes
On the move to our next destination

Leaving the king and his celebrations behind
Amazed by the smoothness

Everything is so well organised clean and easy! And just relaxed and fun. So now we are trying the train for the first time. Leaving Bangkok and heading towards Ayutthaya.
Stiltecoupe

Kijk. Als de trein maar genoeg herrie maakt …. Houdt iedereen zn mond!
Arriving at Ayutthaya

This surely feels more like southeast azia! Yesss
Some first impressions of Ayutthaya

This former capital of the ancient Siam (former name of this country before Japanese occupiers started calling it thailand) from 1350 to 1767. Only ruins remain from this former thriving centre ofBaca selengkapnya
Tuctuc

Nighttime tuctucing ayutthaya
Today cycling through Ayutthaya

Visiting some of the monumental site and tempels but doing that powered by ourselves. Much more pleasant in this hot and sticky weather.
Wai yai Chaimongkhon temple

Brick structures from the 13th century that originally where all covered in white plaster and gold decorations. But the pure beauty it has now after wars and centuries of weather is truly beautifulBaca selengkapnya
Recling Buddah

Looking so relaxed in this little jungle in the middle of the city.
Wat Mahathat

It supposedly lost its glory but personally I appreciate this rough and pure beauty more than all the shininess. But the Burmese where pretty thorough in decapitating the Buddha sculptures. Bizar!Baca selengkapnya
Moving hotel

Tonight we take the train to chiang mai. Aprox 900 km and 13 hours. We booked the option sleeper with airco for yes yes 22 euro pp! What an indulgence. And an indulgence it is. We start withBaca selengkapnya