When I awoke this day I had no idea that it would be the last good sleep I would have until I returned to Korea. Regardless, we had heard on our trek that the womens prison in Chiang Mai offered many services by current women in prison for pretty cheap. Apparently its like some kinda program that is offered to prisoners who are within 6 months of release that helps them get money for when they leave. One of those services happens to be massages. Stu and I enjoyed the one from the day before so much that we had to take John to get one. The massages were pretty amazing and the fact that the women were prisoners made it even cooler. We didnt do much else this day because we had a train to Ayutthaya, the old capitol of Siam, thats about 2 hrs north of Bangkok. The train was supposed to head out of Bangkok around 2pm, but of course its Thailand so it was delayed, and that wasnt all, we had to ride on a bus down to the next train station because there was something wrong with the tracks in Chiang Mai.
The train would be an overnite train and we were to arrive in Ayutthaya around 4am. We assumed that we would arrive a little bit later, considering everythings delayed, and so it wouldnt be too early for us and we would have a little sleep. How wrong we were. First of all, the sleeping area of the train was designed for Thai people. In case you didnt know, Thai people are short as hell. So i was trying to cram myself into a little ball to sleep. Awful. Second, the train tracks in Thailand are not built to well so i was pretty much shaking back and forth the whole time and every once in a while we would fly back and forth in our little bed like areas. It was awful.
I probably feel asleep around 2am and was hoping the train would be late/delayed. And of course it wasnt. Ya it arrived right when it was supposed to. So with 2 hours of sleep I got off the train and was 'excited' to check out the old capitol of Siam.
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