Day Eighteen
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The alarm woke us up around 06:00 in the morning, we had to be ready by 06:45 to get to the tour bus. Half asleep we listened to the history of Ayutthaya, the former capital of Thailand (Ayutthaya Kingdom).
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Before we arrived at Ayutthaya, we first stopped by the King's Summer Palace.
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Our "under construction" curse hasn't been lifted yet.
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After the summer palace we drove 30 minutes to Ayutthaya to see the temple ruins.
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The face below is one of the few ones left (almost all statues were decapitated). A tree decided to grow around it.
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After the ruins we made two more stops, at a temple and a(nother) reclining buddha.
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It was time for lunch, on a boat that took us back to Bangkok.
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