From Ayuttayah we got the overnight train to Chiang Mai. It left at 7.45pm Monday evening and got us to Chiang Mai at 7.15am Tuesday morning. We used this train last time we visited Thailand and were second class. We managed to get first class tickets this time and it was the best night sleep I had since arriving. There were around 10 first class cabins, with two people per cabin. It consisted of a lower bunk and an upper bunk (slightly smaller), a tv for each ...

We decided that before getting on our overnight train to Chiang Mai we would take a day trip to Ayutthaya, which is 80km north of Bangkok. We picked tickets up at the station which cost 30 baht (70p ish) for third class, which is what a lot of the locals use. Our train was scheduled to leave 10.05am. The board showed most of the other trains as delayed with no apparent reason. The delays were ranging from half an hour to over an hour. Nobody seemed bothered at a...