Hope you all are enjoying the new year. The remains of Buddhas (right) reside at Wat Ratcha Burana in Ayutthaya. The walls surrounding the main prang of both this and Wat Maha That are lined with (mostly headless) statues. Between the Burmese and treasure hunters there's not much left of old Ayutthaya but it was definitely worth the three foot jump off the train (they're platform is ...short).

I have just arrived in Kanchanaburi via minibus (thus skipping Bangkok!). After stumbling into a decent looking guesthouse, I walked over to the Thai-Burma Railway museum which presents a surprisingly steady take on the building of the railway. (Much of their material came from Japanese and Dutch sources, neither of whom seem distraught over the POW slave-labor "thing.") Friday I catch the Death railway to Nam Tok followed by a bus to the Hellfire Pass and (hopefully) another bus to Sangkhlaburi. Let no one say I don't know how to ring in the New Year.