ayuthaya

this day started off really crappy but turned out nice. stepped off the train into BOILING HUMID weather. felt like tel-aviv. it felt like walking into warm, wet, bedsheet. we found a guesthouse and immediately took cold showers and then lay around like lumps for about an hour. decided we shouldn't waste the ENTIRE day in our guest house so we went and ate fruit smoothies. they were not enough to cool our burning bodies so we went to KFC and got ice cream. (it was air conditioned, which was how we rationalized spending an hour inside playing cards.) decided to figure out why we came to this god-forsaken town in the first place, so left air con and went to go see the ruins.

these are amazing ruins which i don't feel like detailing right now, but they were just really really cool and brick and cement and huge and intricate and towers and walls. tomorrow we are going to explore more of the ruins on bicycles.

dinner was interesting. we wanted to go this floating restaurant that we found in lonely planet. problem was it was across the river. went on wild goose chase which had us crossing crazy bridge and then realizing couldn't cross bridge because bridge ended miles from the bank of the river, uncrossed bridge, got a tuk-tuk and found that the place was way too expensive and way too empty, so walked all the way home and ate at our own guesthouse. the entire trip took an hour. then we went and got more ice cream.