Khao yai

Standing on a crowded train for two hours was totally worth it once we saw the beauty of this place! Our tour guide that picked us up was an absolute riot. Everything to her is sexy. Sexy bird, sexy monkey everything. So funny. Anyway, our first night they took us to a bat cave to watch the bats leaving from the cave. There was a constant string of bats probably 50 - 75 bats wide

flying out for an hour. Yesterday we had a full day in the jungle. Lots of very cool plants crazy vines, trees beautiful plants a beautiful waterfall and amazing landscape. We saw a long bill bird and bunches of monkeys. We searched for elephants but all we found was their dung. Oh well, it's new years so too many people in the park for elephant sightings. It was a great day trekking through the jungles of Thailand! After we returned to the "hotel" we were invited to join the locals to their new years party, it was the best New Years party ever. We partied around a camp fire with bad karaoke and folks from Thailand, Germany, holland... It was so fun! Today we are relaxing around the pool until we can get taken to ayutthaya for our journey up north to Chaing Mai.

Ayuttaya

Our day in ayuttaya was amazing. We rented these rickety bikes and dove into the traffic (including crazy intersection with no traffic signals). Rode to the ruins and attempted to get to the floating market. More about that later. There are soooo many amazing ruins here it's crazy. Ayuttaya used to be the trading capital of Asia until the Burmese came in and destroyed the city and burned it down.

One of the cool things was a Buddha head that a tree had grown around. Then we too tuk tuks down and toured around the city on a boat, making stops to view temples and more ruins.

Then back to the guest house for a relaxing beer on the deck with Naing and Gohing our WONDERFUL AND CUTE hosts.

Ayuttaya continued

Oh ya we took Turk tusk to get to our place, what a blast!

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Ayuttaya

We are up on Ayuttays (which we can never pronounce)and do excited to be here. The family we are staying with are so kind and so cute! But first I need to say how unbelievable the poverty was as ee were pulling out of the stain station in Bangkok. Directly adjacent to the tracks were hand made structures consisting of corrugated metal, many with ony three walls (you could see directly into the one room shacks) and dirt floors. There were baskets of fish and peppers hanging from roofs to dry that wee so close tongue train you had to keep you arm in or you would hit it.

Anyway, out of the city and into the country. Our place is incredibly cute. Comes cimplete with a great wooden deck and 50 cent beer. Went to to a little restraunt about 12 tables up on a wooden platform open walls and delicious food. 7 of us ate, including 2 appituzers4 We're here in Thailand. Wow what a long travel day. But the hotel is fabulous and we had a long but huge beers waters and tea for $22

Then we went to experience some of the ruins lit up at night time. All I can say is AWSOME!!

Bangkok temples continued

Just a quick note, the rest of Bangkok consisted of markets the Wat Pho and the craziest traffic you will ever experience. I just wanted to add some of the photos.