Ayutthaya is located less than eighty kilometers from the capital of Thailand and is well connected by rail (the train goes there about two hours).

The pearl of the city is several temple complexes (they are on the UNESCO list), which refer to the times of the city’s splendor. The city itself was founded around 1350 and its excellent location caused immediate development. Ayutthaya was at the crossroads of trade routes with China, India and the Malaysian Archipelago, which made it the most populous city in the world (around a million inhabitants) in the years of its heyday (around 1700). The city with its splendor and wealth delighted newcomers from all over the world. History, however, turned out not to be pleasfull to the former capital of Thailand, and it was because of the neighbors who, as it happens in such cases, turned out to be very jealous of wealth. In 1767, Burma’s army seized the city, plundering and destroying it . Ayutthaya never regained its splendor and now has only (compared to the seventeenth century) over sixty thousand inhabitants.

Wat Mahathat is the most crowded place for tourists. In the Thai language, Wat Mahathat means temples of great relics. The temple built in the fourteenth century was the seat of a guru of Thai Buddhist priests. Only the ruins of this shrine have survived to this day, but the buddha dowry and tourist attraction known from every folder, the head of the Buddha in the tree roots, deserve attention.

Generally speaking, for someone who is not an expert or lover of the monuments of the Ayutthaya kingdom (just like us), the ruins look very similar and after a few hours of sightseeing almost monotone. We really congratulate perseverance on those who visited all Ayutthaya sights, we didn’t have so much perseverance.