This tour to and from Ayutthaya is by road both ways. Further upriver from Bangkok lies Ayutthaya the once proud and ancient capital city of Siam for 5 centuries, until the Burmese razed it to the ground in 1767. So much was destroyed, so many treasures lost that historians liken the Burmese attack as the equivalent of the Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima. What remains of this ancient capital is now lovingly preserved