Okay so as a result of we arrived in Bangkok at night time, I by no means obtained spherical to exhibiting you our resort so I’ll simply begin off with that now. 😁
We stayed on the LiT BANGKOK Resort for the primary couple of night time within the metropolis and it was good!
I believed I took images by the pool on my telephone (there are a few swimming pools right here) however I can’t appear to seek out them wherever.
We truly spent your entire subsequent day doing nothing however chilling by the pool with cocktails and having massages within the spa! It was the proper lazy day and was completely good as a result of downtime like that simply has you raring to go the following day. A lot better than packing all of it in and being too exhausted to correctly recognize what you have been doing.
The subsequent morning, we’d be heading up north, and out of Bangkok to Ayutthaya, an historical metropolis with centuries of historical past, which was, as soon as upon a time the capital of Thailand.
Suffice to say, the sheer quantity of historical past right here and unimaginable structure make it one place in Thailand you completely have to go to.
Our first cease was Bang Pa-In Royal Palace, also referred to as the summer time palace – an unimaginable palace complicated nonetheless in use until at the present time because the summer time residence of the Thai royal household.
Exterior of ‘summer time season’ (in quotes largely as a result of Thailand actually has simply two seasons and summer time isn’t one in every of them – it’s wet or dry season), the palace is open so guests can discover.
It’s truly a beautiful palace complicated and one which we discovered ourselves spending extra time than initially anticipated, exploring.
Additionally, it’s price noting that for this journey and certainly, for many of our time in Bangkok, we’d booked a information and a driver.
Why? Nicely for starters it’s much more inexpensive right here than maybe in different elements of the world but additionally, it simply meant that we might discover locations we wished to on our personal time reasonably than going with the group. One thing which got here in helpful whereas we wandered across the Bang Pa-In royal palace at our personal tempo.
There’s probably not a complete lot to let you know concerning the palace. Like there’s stuff you’ll be able to undoubtedly learn extra about once you’re there however this palace is extra about simply slowing down and taking in the fantastic thing about its pure environment.
A bit totally different to what I assume we’d be used to visiting historic palaces within the UK and even the wonderful Grand Palace in Bangkok.
And so we did simply that, ultimately relenting because the solar obtained stronger and stronger and retreating to the automobile the place the driving force had the a lot wanted AC on full blast as we made our means over to the following web site.
Our subsequent cease in Ayutthaya was Wat Phanan Choeng, an nearly 700-year previous temple, whose historical past associated to Chinese language refugees from the Tune Dynasty.
The Buddha statue in right here goes again so far as 1334BCE and is reasonably spectacular to see.
Locations like this, by the way in which, are why we felt it was so essential to have a neighborhood information. We might in all probability have by no means thought to go to it and it will have been a disgrace to have missed locations like this that aren’t essentially on the map as vacationer sizzling spots however as essential to get a real sense of the place you’re visiting.
Leaving the temple, we headed over to take a look at a number of the extra common spots in Ayutthaya, all of which can be found on this publish right here.
I wish to embody it multi function publish however there are lots of websites there and lots of images because of this so it’s close to unimaginable to suit it multi function publish, ergo why it’s in a distinct publish now.
Verify all of it out beneath:
Inside The Ancient Kingdom Of Ayutthaya, Thailand