After barely surviving a night without air conditioning, we asked for an upgraded which we got, and we rented bicycles. We thought about renting mopeds, but decided perhaps they were a little too much machine for us jest yet, especially with the activity on the roads being so fast and if not furious, at least more aggressive than we’re presently prepared to handle. So, having paid our 50 baht for the day-long bicycle rental, we took our trusty iron steeds and hit the road, aiming for the nearest Wat, temple or adventure, all after a healthy breakfast of Coke served in a plastic bag and soft-serve ice cream from some random street corner vender who was also selling wooden furniture (the ice cream was great, but it was so hot that it began to melt through the bottom of the cone only 5 minutes after buying it). We found several Wats and temples in down town Ayuthaya as they pretty much litter the streets of the city almost as much as wild dogs, but most charged an entrance fee and were clogged with tourists and touristy activities which, as we’ve said, we try to avoid whenever possible. We neither entered these nor took pictures. Hopefully our words about them suffice. We have this to say about them. They look like the average Wat and Temple that has been restored or built within the last 10 years.
Instead of continuing to blunder into these attractions, we, being the intrepid travelers and explorers and not the automobiles of Dodge make, decided to ride our bikes around the rim of the city and see what we might find. This proved to be a successful venture indeed as we found a beautiful and almost entirely deserted Wat that we were able to inspect at length without interruption or entrance fee. The Wat was called Wat Rathaburana in Sri Nakakharin Park. It was old, rustic and scenic, just the way we like it, but we only took pictures of an intricate tree and a supplicant in its roots or trunk, we’re not sure what they were.
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