Ayutthaya & Lopburi: cycling amongst the ruins and walking amongst monkeys!
October 21st 2017 Our train journey from Bangkok to Ayutthaya went well, we met an Italian man, Silvio, who came with us to our hostel. We wanted to rent bikes to tour around the town where there are a lot of ruined temples. Unfortunately, our hostel had rented all of their bikes so we had to walk quite a way before finding another place to rent bikes.
I hadn't ridden a bike for at least 10 years (and had hated e
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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more 
