We got the train from Bangkok to Ayutthaya which is one of the old kingdoms of Thailand. We had a Tuk Tuk driver who took as all around the different Wat's and Chedi's, I cant remember them all off the top of my head, but we saw a fair few ( I know that makes us sound really uninterested, we weren't but its difficult to remember everything we see) they are from around 13th century Thailand and at one point it was the capital city, it was very interesting and very different from the temples which we have seen so far. Some of the temples we weren't sure what they were meant to contain and Iain decided because they had squirrels running around them that they were actually just "elaborate squirrel houses". We arrived in the late afternoon to Ayutthaya and so our tour around the city ruins, was around dusk, it made them even more spectacular sights. The first temple, we spent ages looking for a reclining Buddha and when we found it, it really wasn't that amazing because we've now seen the one at Wat Pho, then the place where we were meant to see an amazing sunset the sky was cloudy and also filled with smoke, so that ruined that, although we did see a monk trying to "cow tip" and went inside the temple (it was pitch black and we took a torch) and came to Buddhist shrine, there was something distinctly eerie about it. After all the temples we went to a night market for dinner and then wandered around a few more of the temples as they had been light up and looked amazing standing out in the darkness. After Ayutthaya we headed to Suphan Buri, we were here for all of about 5 minutes before we decided it was another ghost town and went on to Kanchanaburi instead, which is where the Death Railway is, for all who don't know this is the railway built by the PoWs (and locals) in the Second World War from Thailand to Burma during the war under the Japanese command. Thousands died. We went to the railway museum and learnt all about it, from here we looked across the cemetery although we didn't walk through it, it is immaculately kept though, and then we walked along the bridge, which is like all tourist destinations with loads of clueless tourists wandering up and down, not quite sure why they are there but interested in the drinks they can buy at the end of it. We then decided to go to the three pagodas pass which is on the border between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar to be correct), and then were hoping to cross the border, this plan failed miserably, we arrived here after a 5 hour bus journey found out that the border was closed, so we stayed the night and then travelled the 5 hours back to Kanchanaburi again the next day, from here we are heading to Lop Buri which is another ancient city and we are meeting up with Dan again, from then we've got our fingers cross for slightly more successful travelling! hehe. Mwah Karli, Ness (and Iain) xzxzxzxzxzx