Historic Detour
December 27th 2006 To break up the long journey from Chiang Mai back to Bangkok, and for a change of scenery, we stopped off in Ayuthaya (pronounced: A-yoo-tay-a), Thailand's historic former capital city.
Ayuthaya is a mid-sized modern city interspersed with relics of a dominant past. Historic temples and palaces, are scattered throughout the city dating back to 1350 when it was the capital of Siam, up until 1767,
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