Ayutthaya

Last weekend Nuch and I drove to Ayutthaya, It as a small city around fifty miles north of the centre of Bangkok. Ayutthaya is the old capital of Bangkok.
Local Taxi Service
The City is full of old Temples, and you can really see what the place must have looked like before the capital was moved to Bangkok. Some of the Sites are vast! There are also many old sites of western origin, such as the Portuguese Settlement and St. Josephs Church. These were like the Embassies of the day.

Ayutthaya is famous for a kind of dessert in Thailand. It comes in two parts, the first looking and tasting like a coarse version of candy floss. The second part looks like a tortilla flour. You put the candy floss in the flour and then roll it into a cigar shape and eat. Very tasty.

There are plenty of Restaurants on the river, and unlike Bangkok the water is clear and doesn’t smell like a toilet. If the food had not arrived when it did, I fancied taking a dip. The temperature was in the high 30’sC.
Seafood Curry, served in a coconut.
Although a couple of hours drive, Ayutthaya is definitely worth a visit.