hello welcome back or welcome if you are new here my name is josie welcome to my channel
so today well right now we're in chinatown in bangkok but today we're on the way to ayatai
so i've never been there before i'm going to show you what it's like but first
if you can see that it's starting to rain and it's pretty much monsoon season here so we're
gonna pop into 7-eleven and grab some essentials for the rain because i think we're going to have
a really rainy day so let's go 7-11 and then let's head on to ayutthaya
so we're just getting our ponchos i get yellow because it's my favorite color
so we're getting them from 7-eleven pack if you are in thailand it rains
7-11 have little ponchos i think they're like 20 baht and an umbrella
okay so you can catch a train most people will catch a train from bangkok to ayatara and then
catch a tuk-tuk basically from the train station to wherever you're going which is what we would
have done but it was meant to be a monsoon today so we ended up taking a car just for you know a
little bit quicker a little bit more convenient um and it was supposed to rain so we didn't really
want to be out in the rain for the whole train trip and the tuk tuk um but it actually hasn't
rained yet so we did get that umbrella and we have poncho so just in case it does we are expecting it
to but here we are we are in ayudaya that's how you say it is that how you say it it's a town
that i don't think we'll be able to pronounce the name of correctly okay well for the rest of the
video i'm calling it are you tired so tell me in the comments how to say it properly for next time
but we're here we're gonna look at some old ancient like monuments building structures today
and of course we have to get some street food and some thai food from from local food some
local food from ayutthaya so let's go so the first capital of thailand was actually sukhitai which
was about 800 ish years ago and ayutthaya was built not long after i think about 50 years later
it became the capital and it was the capital for about what 400 years 400 years so the buildings
that we're going to see today and the buildings that you'll see are like 700 plus years old yeah
yeah that's insane so there's just ruins and you can see the original like buildings we're gonna
see more today i haven't really seen all of them yet but there was one back there that i saw just
walking down here so that's crazy to think that they're that old and this was the capital what's
it now bangkok bangladesh capital now well the new name prankster mahanakon prontek mohammed khan
is now the capital obviously but this was the capital that's crazy to think
so i'm very very new to all of the history about this so from my understanding the reason why
this is in ruins is because back when burma came they attacked the city and it basically
ruined everything so they've got heads of buddhas in the temple that we just went to
see because apparently the burmese came in and basically chopped the heads off all of
the statues and the monuments um as an act of their war i guess so they've preserved
i think their heads and put them in that temple so that's why they are there but this is here because
most of the things obviously that they had were destroyed and they were mainly made of wood so
you can imagine in a fire that's what's going to burn and be completely destroyed but the reasons
why these are still here is because they're stone so that's what's remaining just still here
you can see that a lot of the things up there have actually been smashed so when the burmese came
through as well it was like complete ransacking of the city and for a bit of history like it
it wasn't there was some pretty brutal stuff done so you depending on what accounts of history you
read some people were whoever wasn't murdered was basically taken as slaves the people who
actually still lived in this city people fled and they'd gone elsewhere but they attacked this city
because it was the capital and if you lived here you either died or you were a slave or you had to
get out so it's pretty crazy to think every bit of a smashed uh monument that you see was smashed
500 years ago for 300 300 400 years ago so for reference as well it was 10 baht for thais to pop
in and it was 50 baht for foreigners so there is a cover charge or an entrance feeder pop into here
and michael's just saying that this kind of reminds me of angkor wat which is where cambodia
cambodia it's it's obviously the same because angkor wat's a big city but just the the feel
behind it reminds me a lot of angkor wat and i haven't seen that so that'd be exciting for me
to say i love stuff like this i love like ancient ruins and things i studied ancient
history in high school so i learned all about like you know pompeii herculaneum egypt all of
that stuff so this stuff really interests me to be honest with you asian well that even looks
like a yeah something's there was there like a statue of something look at that that's a border
yeah look at that up there cross legs yeah whoa this is insane this is actually this this stuff
this stuff is cool to me it's so sad to think about though like just history okay
we knew it would happen but the rain is just starting i'm feeling the rain drops on me so
we might have to switch to the gopro or something but this place is just insane i i find it hard
sometimes to get excited about the temples like now that i know sort of more about what it is if
you go back and have a look at the silver temple tour i did um in my other video i'll link it on
the screen and down below it gave me more of an insight into the temples and everything but
this stuff especially gives me gets me excited like that we're not excited because it's sad but
this just really interests me but it's about to start raining i knew it would
so we have our umbrella and our ponchos so you might see us in them coming up oh
kind of earlier
so we're just looking and i think that over there is a buddha head and i think it was knocked off
that one up there might be a little bit too big but in any case that looks like the head of a
buddha and it's kind of crazy that you think that after you know so many years of being uninhabited
people would come back and find just bits of a butter head on the floor like
yeah we're gonna need that now on the camera on the camera i'm alright to get wet but this is
really insane and if you're anywhere near bangkok i think this is almost i must say this is really
really cool to see really cool wow okay so i'm pretty sure i spotted a milo ice
here out the front of the temples grounds in there ruins but if you're new here which i think most of
you are i love milo ice i had my first milo ice in chiang mai in ever in my life in thailand and
ever since i have been addicted so let's see if we have some smartika some milo ice here
okay
yes we're going to get a thai milk tea instead so you're right we should maybe do a little
a little bit more traditional this is mixing it all up down here sorry yeah thank you
yeah thank you okay yellow straw yellow is my favorite
you always get the yellow strawberry always the yellow straw okay so it's not malayan but
that's okay i think we needed something a little traditional while we were here and also poppies
i also think that i love the puppies the towns don't seem to be mileage like
all the places that have milo yeah you're so right every time we've gone to like a small
town or something they don't normally generally have milo they have like ovaltine we went to
kanchanaburi and the same thing happened chiang rai didn't have it either no one had milo it was
ovaltine or coco but we love milo here tell me in the comments below if you like muller or team
well today i'm time milk tea right now so let's just
oh it is good stuff it is good it is good now i think we have to go to the
next one and i think we might find some food maybe some street food or something because
it's three o'clock in the afternoon and we haven't eaten anything today yet so let's go for a wander
so this one here is just across the road outside the gate of the other one it's a big prong if you
can see it there and it's on the sign there it tells you what they all are there's like chatty
stupa buddha prang pedestal and walls so it kind of tells you the difference just there
i'm holding up my umbrella because it's raining but that's it behind you and we're
kind of just walking around the outside of it just exploring a little and there's a beautiful garden
or bridge over there as well so it's a pretty beautiful place to be honest
okay so after we left the uh ruins and the site we walked around the uh there's like a big pond
with lily pads all the way through it like it's so beautiful i've never seen lily pads i think
in real life and the whole thing is just absolutely amazing and we walked around it and we
found this like restaurant coffee shop we walked here it's right on that lilypad lake it's we're
looking on it we're pretty much on the lake if we got any closer it would be we'll be swimming with
the lizards at this point it's really beautiful so we've stopped here for some food i have a
chicken with cashew nut and it was totally my fault i forgot to ask for my pair no spicy um
so i do have some chili in there as well and i also have some sweat running down my forehead
michael got the grilled chicken and we also got some rice to share as well so
it's a really really cool local restaurant oh and i got an espresso yen so
we've just stopped here for some lunch this looks it looks amazing it looks
really looks like some of the best the skin looks so crispy let's see what we got i was
gonna get this as well but michael got it so he can eat it for the both of us how is it
honestly good you can never go wrong with a little random restaurant in thailand all right
okay it must be spicy unless you actually eat the chilis because that was fine really nice
too actually that's really nice food i don't think you can go wrong when you're in thailand
that's really nice try and go to the ones made for locals because the food will always be good enough
you'll very rarely have a bad local restaurant because if the locals don't go
the restaurant doesn't exist so if you can identify when you come here i know a lot of
people are planning trips right now because things are opening again and you might be
watching this video try the place next door yeah maybe off you know i don't know that's easy to say
you need to take it off the beaten track but it's very true and it's always worth it don't be afraid
to stop at a local restaurant but probably just have a look and see is there a couple
of other locals there if so it's probably pretty good we did it on the way to lemping and i got
i don't know if you can see that but there's a massive lizard
he looks like a shark like a crocodile
my lens doesn't zoom far enough but that's so scary
right there looking big
oh my god he's so big
he's like four times
okay i'm going back up here so i think it's safe to say they were the biggest monitor
lizards i've seen in my entire life they're basically crocodiles and now i can tell why
they evolved from them and don't try and tell me that they didn't because that was
a crocodile i swear that lizard was so big now we're um walking down here and
we're just trying to find a coffee shop and hopefully this leads us to it oh i love her
they all like kind of look sad and i just want to like hug them all
just past there if you can see and they're setting up for i think the night time it's about almost
five o'clock so they would be serving dinner soon we're gonna go there in a second but first we're
gonna stop and get another coffee because i drink like five a day but that's the market over there
we just happened to stumble upon it it's so cool look at this like look at these ruins right here
just in the middle of the town just there it is a whole ancient piece of history so we just got to
this really cute cafe on the side of this lake or pond i got another coffee and michael got a blue
soda and it's beautiful there's greenery trees this is a really good place for photos but it's
so serene i really like it it's really pretty here so this seems to be the night market here in iota
it's so busy it's only like quarter past five look at all look at all these things there's so
many people here there's fried chicken there's fruit there's pancakes it's really busy and
there's it's just alive this is cool i really like this we're kind of full from today in our food a
little bit earlier but we'll see if there's anything that we can pick up i think that's
squid or something and they look like donuts they're donuts i know what they
are michael's getting his uh sausage pancake things that he normally gets at markets
everyone here is so friendly 20 baht 20 baht for some sausages
that's so cool i love it here everyone's so nice i'd love to know the thai name for these yeah he
loves these it's like a pancake with a sausage unit right tell us please tell me the name so i
know what it is i'd like to be able to ask for it properly well that's it for our day in iota
we've had a really interesting day i love small towns like this i love coming to places like this
we're on our way back to bangkok right now we are going to get a car just because it's
a little bit late in the day and we just want to get straight home it luckily didn't rain
on us but we're wondering if it is going to so we're just going to get the car back
there is a train so it just cost probably a couple of dollars each way on the train
but our car cost us about 30 australian dollars so about six to 700 baht probably a lot cheaper and
a lot more fun to catch the train so keep that in mind now if you liked this video
i know you're gonna like my little trip time that i had in kanchanaburi so i'm gonna leave that on
the screen and the description bar below so go and check that one out when you're done with this
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