Around Bangkok's Grand Palace at night

Continuing from Rushing to Bangkok.

Our main destination for the night is the Grand Palace and its surroundings.

Around here are situated a number of important government buildings...

That's the Grand Palace in view...

In front of the palace lies the Ministry of Defence building...

At the lawn of that building lies a number of old cannons...

Of particular interest to me and wife is one called the Sri Patani.

It is said to have been seized from the kingdom of Patani when the Thai's won in a masive attack.

Next to the Ministry of Defence is a temple called the Pillar Shrine of Bangkok...

Back to the Grand Palace...

It is an amazing sight at night...

Rushing to Bangkok

Continuing from Tuk Tuk ride around Ayutthaya.

Soon it's time to leave Ayutthaya and head for Bangkok.

We left at at around 4.45 pm. 

About 45 minutes later we have arrived at the northern fringe of the mega-city that is Bangkok...

Before that I have switched to the passenger side to let the wife drive.

I was so tired. This was the first time someone else drove since we left home 2,000 km ago...

It was almost sunset as we rushed to get to the city centre...

We took an elevated highway which goes for miles and miles...

Entering the city centre at about 6 pm.

Still, it took another half an hour before we could find our main destination for the night...

Tuk Tuk ride around Ayutthaya

Continuing from Walking in Ayutthaya.

In the afternoon we rented a Tuk Tuk, the famous three-wheeled Thailand road transport and were taken for a ride.

We went around the city of Ayutthaya and had good views of the going-ons...

We went to a number of famous old temples where the Tuk Tuk stopped and waited as we walked for better views...

At first we were very excited to see that there are so much historical buildings in Ayutthaya...

But after almost 2 hours of ride it became such a common sight that we could not care anymore...