AT#210 - Travel to the Ancient Capitals of Thailand

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2009

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Amateur Traveler talks to Matt Kepkes of NomadicMatt.com about his trip to the ancient capitals of Thailand: Ayutthaya, Lopburi and Sukhothai. Before the capital moved to Bangkok it was in each of these three cities as invaders came in from what is now Cambodia and Burma and then were subsequently repelled. Instead of taking the night train to Chang Mai as many tourists do, Matt and his traveling companions explored these cities on the way. In their travels they found ancient temples (some in ruins and some well preserved), wonderful night markets, troops of monkeys, friendly people and a slice of rural Thailand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 210.
0:15.0	Today the Amateur Traveler talks about ancient temples, old capitals, and monkeys as we go back
0:21.8	to Thailand.
0:23.0	I'm going to
0:25.0	one more cafe.
0:26.0	I know that I should be heading home,
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Generally at
0:37.1	this part of the show I do some news. I didn't find any news that caught my
0:41.5	eye today and one thing I wanted to talk to you about
0:43.8	is since I'm now doing every week a one hour travel news show with Gary Arnd, Jen Leo, and other guests called This Weekend Travel. I'm wondering if I still need to do a
0:56.5	travel section on the amateur traveler. Could you leave a comment at the amateur traveler.com
1:02.1	on this episode and let me know if you think it's necessary.
1:06.0	And now on to the interview.
1:10.5	I'd like to welcome back to the show Matt Keptness from nomadic Matt.
1:13.7	Matt was on before talking to us about Western Australia and has come back to talk to us
1:19.0	about Thailand. Matt, welcome back to the show.
1:20.9	It's good to be back. I'm a big fan of the show. It's good to be back.
1:23.0	I'm a big fan of the show and I'm glad to be honored again.
1:26.0	And we say from Thailand, you're actually right now as we're talking you're in Bangkok.
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