Wat Mahathat Sukhothai

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After spending over a week in Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son, we said our goodbyes and started heading south. The trip to Bangkok would be quite a long journey (try 13 hours by bus), so we decided to break up the trip with a stopover at Sukhothai. The trip there was with a 2nd Class bus, which means weak AC and beatup seats. …

Sukhothai fue una de las mejores experiencias hasta el momento. Tomamos un tren desde ayuttaya hasta phitsanulok, tres horas después llegamos a phitsanulok y tomamos un bus hasta Sukhothai. Llegamos a Sukhothai el lunes por la tarde. Muy cansados por el viaje decidimos descansar esa noche y no hacer ninguna de las cosas que teníamos …

Heute haben wir einen anstrengenden aber heissen Tag hinter uns. Nach dem uns beim Fruehstueck bereits recht heiss wurde entschieden wir uns nicht Fahrraeder sondern ein Moped fuer einen Tag zu leihen. In Sukhothai kostet das lediglich 200 Baht. Allerdings muss man Mauttickets fuer jeden Streckenabschnitt der Tempelanlage dazurechnen. Westteil und …

... feel serene. Stroll for a few minutes and you get to Wat Mahathat, one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen. Wat Mahathat is not just one temple, rather a whole collection of ruins that you can meander through, discovering new impressive things ...

... the first day looking at all the temples in the inner part of the Old City, the most notable of which is yet another Wat Mahathat.  The temple grounds have lots of smaller chedi with Buddha statues in them.  Tony was amazed by how quickly we ...

... und ich sind also am naechsten Tag in den Historical Park. Dort haben wir uns Fahrraeder ausgeborgt und sind ein paar verfallene Tempeln abgeklappert (Wat Mahathat, Wat Pra Yuen, Wat Kamphang Hin, Wat Chedi Ngam, Saphan Hin, Si Chum und Phra Pahi Luang). ...

... former capital. It was easy to see as much of the ruins as we wanted by renting bicycles from our guest house. The best site was Wat Mahathat, home of the Buddha head in the bodhi tree.   As we made our way around the old city, we stopped to ...

... we could take in the time it took for it to get hot enough to want to leave.  The crown jewel of the old city is Wat Mahathat, with a lotus bud stupa and a lot of Buddha images, including one that is 9m high.  The park is actually a very nice ...

... went up only halfway on our dad's back.  Please view the picture. We started the day at Wat Mahathat.  This was the principal temple in Sukhothai and had many Buddhas throughout the grounds.  For some reason, there were 3 bus groups of ...

... nbsp;in the 13th and 14th centuries. Inside are the remains of the royal palace and twenty-six temples, the largest being Wat Mahathat. It's been declared a World Heritage Site and the ground are very well maintained. We hired push bikes and tootled ...

... others, but are much more off the beaten path and I was occasioanlly the only one at a particular Wat. First stop was Wat Mahathat in Chalieng. Very impressive looking and in great shape as these things go, right by the Lom River. Had to cross a long, ...

... l’air est encore frais. Le temps idéal pour admirer les nénufars roses grand ouverts dans le petit marais qui entoure le Wat Mahathat. C’est sur ce site qu’a été retrouvé la pierre du roi Rama Kam Heng qui créa l’alphabet ...

... assim não estão satisfeitos, parece sempre lhes faltar algo.     Uma das primeiras ruínas - o Wat Mahathat - é também uma das mais impressionantes; a área que muitos consideram ter sido o centro administrativo e espiritual do ...