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This town is the old capital of Thailand, it's on an island in the middle of three rivers. It's quite nice, they seem to have been temple mad cause there are loads. You can see them all by hiring a push bike, the land is all flat and the roads aren't that busy, we got fed up after nine and went to find the heads of all the Buddha statues in the museum. The museum is worth a visit even if it's only to get out of the heat. Tuk-tuks: They're not like the ones in Bangkok, some of them are worse, some of them have been done up like hot rods which is quite funny for a Honda micro van with the back cut off. You can actually get in them, we haven't seen any taxis so I assume it's them or walk. Make sure the driver understands where you want to go, especially if you've got it at the station. We got one who appeared to understand that we wanted the TAT office but he took us to his families guest house instead. It was OK though, not like Bangkok, the bloke at the guesthouse spoke English and after realising we weren't after a room told the driver where to take us, only thing it cost us was 10mins extra time. Accommodation. The Ayutthaya Guest house was the first place we tried but it was full (well the rooms with bathroom and aircon were), it looks like a nice family run place though and they speak English, especially the kids. We had a snack and breakfast in the Moon Cafe over the road and they bring all the food over from the guest house on a bike. We are in the Chantara guest house over the road, it's brand new so very nice, not that expensive and also family run. Don't rent a bike off them though, we tried and I think it's the mother's personal bike, not one of the new ones you get from the proper bike shops but a knackered old Suzuki that has a dodgy throttle, there's no basket on the front either. One word of warning, if you stay here, there is a midnight curfew, they lock the front door and if you're out after that you're out for the night.
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