Thais use boats to navigate flooded homes and ancient temples in Ayutthaya

This aerial photo shows flooding inside the grounds of Wat Choeng Tha Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya on Novr 14, 2025. - AFP

AYUTTHAYA: For three months, Thai retiree Somkid Kijniyom has been sleeping in a small boat surviving on dry food handouts in the waist-high floodwaters that have filled his home.

Relentless rains have plunged Thailand's Ayutthaya province, home to a Unesco-listed ancient city, into what residents say is its worst flooding in years.