Ayutthaya, a quick stop at the historical city

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What happened to this city we could not figure out.. We followed the Bible as usual (Lonely Planet) and ended up in the "backpackers"street of Ayutthaya, that consisted of 3-4 lonely riders sipping beer in a few bars and the liveliest place to be was a Jazz Bar with a funny chap, the owner, trying to entertain us with geography games. We all know how much I just love jazz music, so it was time to find some decent music. It was quiet late but nevertheless, Rich and me were hungry for some dancing, so we hopped on some dodgy motorbike-taxis ( basically you sit behind someone and hope he is actually able to ride motors), and followed the recommendations of the locals of where to find the cool places to be. This ended up us wondering around in some dark areas, and as I had to go to the toilet, we decided to pop into a big wooden building with a lot of lights. Lucky us! This turned out to be one of the funniest nights so far: a local concert hall/discotheque, where everyone was staring at the 2 white people that was us. We managed to get some courage from some beers and decided to shake our booties for some live Thai indie music and went to the stage where some people were dancing already...We arrived and about 20 screaming little Thai girls jumped on us, so happy to touch us, and they even shared a glass of wine between them so each one of them could have a cheer with us. They were so sweet and friendly - needless to say that none of them spoke any English! 😊
What a great local experience, friendly people and some great music!
The next day was not a lay-in, but we (well..me) decided to rent bikes and cruise around the city, that was the ancient capital of Thailand until the Burmese came in and destroyed it all. Lets blame the Burmese, but ruins are not my cup of tea, we ended up biking, getting lost, sweating on the 50 degree gazing sun watching ruins and temples. This was quiet exhausting, so we headed home and after 1 hour of researching we decided to take the chance and take a tuk-tuk to the train station, cross our fingers, and hope there is still some tickets left for the overnight train to Chiang Mai. Yes, this is a big risk, as most transportation are fully booked in Asia. And by fully I mean...when they ran out of seat they start to MAKE seat from broken chairs and all.
So, we were lucky, ''only'' had to wait 1 hour, we got out tickets and some useful info that we will be able to buy food on the train and we will get a free bus shuttle to the nearest train station due to the flood conditions.
did I say how useful this was? There was no free shuttle bus, or food and we ended up having a 6-hour stop during the night for - we don't know what reason - up to this day.
We arrived finally to Chiang Mai after 21 hours on the sleeper train, instead of 11 hours... So basically a bit delayed yeah. But on the bright side, we didnt sink in the flood, and met up with a cool group of 5 people, who ended up our core group in Chiang Mai.

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