Almost ready to go
5. heinäkuuta 2024, Alankomaat ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
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 forLue lisää
Good to go ;-)
25. heinäkuuta 2024, Alankomaat ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Nice and lightly packed. Good spirited
Now for the long trip
25. heinäkuuta 2024, Tanska ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
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
26. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
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
26. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
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
26. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
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 putLue lisää
Getting in the zone
26. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
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
26. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
And so do the thai!
Enlightenment
27. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌩️ 31 °C
Well they have plenty of buddahs to get there
Streetlife
27. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌩️ 30 °C
Singing. Sorry no swimming in the rain
27. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌩️ 29 °C
Wat Suthat Thep Wararam
27. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Big reclining buddah Wat Pho
27. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Cockroach snakes and scorpion for dinner
27. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
We stick to the more modest fabulous fried dishes
On the move to our next destination
28. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Leaving the king and his celebrations behind
Amazed by the smoothness
28. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
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
28. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
Kijk. Als de trein maar genoeg herrie maakt …. Houdt iedereen zn mond!
Arriving at Ayutthaya
28. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
This surely feels more like southeast azia! Yesss
Some first impressions of Ayutthaya
28. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
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 ofLue lisää
Tuctuc
28. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Nighttime tuctucing ayutthaya
Today cycling through Ayutthaya
29. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
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
29. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
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 beautifulLue lisää
Recling Buddah
29. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
Looking so relaxed in this little jungle in the middle of the city.
Wat Mahathat
29. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
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!Lue lisää
Moving hotel
30. heinäkuuta 2024, Thaimaa ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
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 withLue lisää










































































































