Almost ready to go
2024年7月5日, オランダ ⋅ ☁️ 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 forもっと詳しく
Good to go ;-)
2024年7月25日, オランダ ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Nice and lightly packed. Good spirited
Now for the long trip
2024年7月25日, デンマーク ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年7月26日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年7月26日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年7月26日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 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 putもっと詳しく
Getting in the zone
2024年7月26日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年7月26日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
And so do the thai!
Enlightenment
2024年7月27日, タイ ⋅ 🌩️ 31 °C
Well they have plenty of buddahs to get there
Streetlife
2024年7月27日, タイ ⋅ 🌩️ 30 °C
Singing. Sorry no swimming in the rain
2024年7月27日, タイ ⋅ 🌩️ 29 °C
Wat Suthat Thep Wararam
2024年7月27日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Big reclining buddah Wat Pho
2024年7月27日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Cockroach snakes and scorpion for dinner
2024年7月27日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
We stick to the more modest fabulous fried dishes
On the move to our next destination
2024年7月28日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Leaving the king and his celebrations behind
Amazed by the smoothness
2024年7月28日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 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
2024年7月28日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 31 °C
Kijk. Als de trein maar genoeg herrie maakt …. Houdt iedereen zn mond!
Arriving at Ayutthaya
2024年7月28日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
This surely feels more like southeast azia! Yesss
Some first impressions of Ayutthaya
2024年7月28日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 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 ofもっと詳しく
Tuctuc
2024年7月28日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Nighttime tuctucing ayutthaya
Today cycling through Ayutthaya
2024年7月29日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 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
2024年7月29日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 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 beautifulもっと詳しく
Recling Buddah
2024年7月29日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
Looking so relaxed in this little jungle in the middle of the city.
Wat Mahathat
2024年7月29日, タイ ⋅ 🌧 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!もっと詳しく
Moving hotel
2024年7月30日, タイ ⋅ ☁️ 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 withもっと詳しく










































































































