Where's Gwin?: Thailand....

We just finished up our time in Bangkok and Ayathuya. It has been awesome so far. The morning after arriving we took a car up to tour the old capital Ayathuya. It was really beautiful....loads of Buddist and Hindu temples. Some only the remnants due to invaders coming in and destroying them throughout the centuries. The Summer Palace outside of the city looked like something you would find in France. Nothing like what we had been seeing in the rest of our sightseeing in Asia. After that we headed for our long tail boat trip to meet our converted rice barge that would take us down the river from Ayathuya back to Bangkok with a stop overnight on the way. It was just the two of us and another couple from Italy on their honeymoon. The whole trip was one of my favorite parts of our trip thus far. Really awesome. The Thais are so sweet and seem to care deeply for their country. I took tons of pictures of course!
As for the rest of our time in Indonesia, it was nice but not as fabulous as Bali. We were in Yogyakarta after we left Bali, a few hours flight to the west. It was predominantly Muslim and as two women traveling they seemed to think we needed to be "taken care of". Kind of annoying. We had tours of Borobudur the large Buddist Temple and Prambanan the Hindu temple. We were pretty much the only Westerners in the whole place. Everyone was begging for our pictures with them. Both the temples were great but the heat was killer! I never knew you really do need an umbrella in the sunshine! I was actually ready to leave Yogya unlike the other places we had gone. The last straw for me was when the villas we were staying at insisted on waking us up at 4 am with a wake up call when we said we did not want or need one for our 530 am ride to the airport and came back at 430 am to wake us up in person since we didnt' heed the first one. Of course if this is the worst thing that happens the trip is a success. I shouldn't complain. They were trying to help us. Anyhow, I found that my cell phone works here. No idea the roaming charges but it was awesome to call the US so easily! Not sure if it will still work in Chiang Mai where we are heading tomorrow.