Ayutthaya, next destination in Thailand

                                         Marc and I left Ayutthaya yesterday, and we miss it already.

                                          Old Temples, destroyed by the Burmese....

                                                    Buddhist monk

                                                    Big Golden Buddha

                                          Vicky and I posing with the Buddha

                                          We slept in houses on boats in the middle of the lake. Before dinner, we went for a swim. The water was great, so were the water fights with the girls.

                                          Marc, Lindsay and Yoda

                                                     Many waterfalls coming....

                                          A big snake.

                                          The group

                                     

                                          Fierce monkey!

                                          The bridge of river Kwai
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                                                    Big Buddha

Chiang Mai

There are so many pictures for this one. Marc and I went with our group to Northern Thailand. There we walked in the forest, swam in waterfalls, eat rice in palm leaves on rocks, tried worms and grasshoppers for dinner, learnt how to cook various Thai dishes including Pad Thai and sticky rice, ride elephants, and more.

                                          This is where we stayed the first night there. We were all scared of breaking the bamboo floor. The wake up call was engineered by the 50 roosters glouglouing all at once. (french word transformed into english verb - sry).

                                          mmmh, worms! The grasshoppers were crunchy then all gooey inside.

                                          Preparation for the swim. Kev is pumped.

                                                    Going down the waterfall.

                                          Bamboo forest.

                                          Sawati krab! (hello)

                                                    posing!

                                          Petting the elephant.

                                          Tamara and I on top of Para (the elephant's name was Paracetamol)

                                                    Lindsay and Marc

                                          Para splashing us.

 

Making Pad Thai 

Bangkok, Thailand

"Watch out the ladyboys!" was what everyone told us. We didn't have much of a chance to see any, since we only spent a night there. Here is what we did see though:

                                          We rented bikes to visit Bangkok.

                                     

                                                    Buddhist Temple

                                            Floating houses

                                We laughed quite a bit when we saw that.

                                    The Royal Palace (the king Rama 9 no longer lives there)

                                   The true name of Bangkok was too long for everyone that they shortened it to Bangkok.

a couple more of Singapore

We had to pass by Singapore again before going to Thailand, and we found some interesting things I wanted to put up.