After a quick Thai breakfast we paid for 2 bikes and explored the ancient city. There are so many buildings and temples. Some are in ruin, some are restored, some are modern and some have UNESCO heritage status. We spent the whole day pedalling around visiting as many as we could ... and there are a lot. We took many, many photos, some of which are really beautiful!
Lunch was fresh mango, carefully chopped up by the stall owner but it wasn't exactly like a mango that we know. It was quite sour and we dipped it in a pink mixture of sugar and spices. We ate it under a tree at the lake in the shade. The lake was in the grounds of an amazing Wat. One of the cleaners came over too us. She was carrying bananas and a stick. She then smiled and proceeded to add a lump of banana to the end of the stick. Immediately little heads popped up in the lake and about 50 turtles swam over to us. The lady held the stick out to one of the turtles and he took the banana. She then looked at us, gave us the stick and left us to feed the other turtles whilst she carried on cleaning! We are now qualified turtles feeders!
End of school time caused more traffic on the roads. We stopped outside a school to see what the children were buying from stalls. We went away with chips coated in spicy wing sauce, omelette and rice plus a huge coke with ice!
Later we handed the bikes back and caught the little ferry across the river back to our hotel to relax before heading out to dinner. Over dinner we chatted to a Scottish couple whilst slurping down our tom yam soup.
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