The city of Ayutthaya was once one of the largest, if not the largest, cities in the world, the great capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom that dominated South-East Asia and a vital trading hub to which traders from all across the known world journeyed up the Chao Praya River, past an insignificant settlement known as Bangkok...

( May be boring if you don't like the poignant decay of ruined cities and the impermanence of material things... )

( May be boring if you don't like the poignant decay of ruined cities and the impermanence of material things... )