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Phitsanulok Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Phitsanulok, Thailand
Phitsanulok
This is a top pick! We spent a day in Phitsanulok visiting the Folklore Museum, a very random collection of Thai artefacts, a Buddha-making factory to provide background for the many, many statues we had seen so far and Wat Phra Si Mahathat. Thailand, being the slightly ...
We WILL make it to Sukhothai!!!
This is a top pick! ... 's legs and sat on her bag. I then spent the rest of the journey reminding ourselves it cost only £2! Finally we arrived in Phitsanulok around half 9 where a nice woman showed us to a guest house in our guide book from the train station. We checked in ...
Monkeys and antiquities
This is a top pick! ... was the wok master!). Itinerary decision: Lynda and I are off on the train--the ssssslllloooooowwwwwwwww (but cheap!) local version--to Phitsanulok, a city on a river north of here. It'll be our jumping off point to Mae Sot, on the western border with ...
The fortunate ones!
This is a top pick! We had a wonderful afternoon in the pool yesterday. There were several of the people from the tour enjoying the pool. We drew quite a crowd. I am not sure what it was about. The balcony had 4 or 5 Thai people watching us. Some of them were hotel staff ...
Phitsanulok!
This is a top pick! ... very early morning the next day as we wanted to fit in the Sukothai historical park in the morning to bezz back to Phitsanulok to continue Northwards in the afternoon but feeling confident we decided to give it a shot! We stayed in our cheapest ...
Week 2 - Phittsanulok - Day 9
Day 9 - 10/04/11 - Lop Buri to Phitsanulok We wanted to work our way through Northen Thailand by train as it seems more scenic than bus travel. However the floods meant there were no trains heading further north than Lop Buri so plans had to be ...
Thai Aerobics
... and his chart, and casually mentions we should get off here. Checked into a very adorable small hostel in Phitsanulok, or should I say, "Phi-lok"...Nikki falls asleep immediately (we are very tired from the stress, in case you couldn't ...
Jenseits touristischer Pfade
Phitsanulok – Die 84.000 Einwohner-Stadt rund eine Stunde von Sukhothai hat touristisch nicht allzu viel zu bieten, und so richtig wissen wir selbst nicht mehr, warum wir hier Halt gemacht haben, vermutlich jedoch wegen der guten ...
The old capital of Thailand
... process - the story is in the pictures. From Pitsanulok we took a day trip to Sukothai, one of the ancient capitals of Thailand in the 14th century. Many temples and statues of the Buddha remain. This era in Thai history is also important ...
Et l'aventure commence...
... les étrangers ! Nous avons pris un train, un peu délabré mais avec un charme certain, jusqu'à Phitsanulok, à 6h au nord de Bangkok. L'expérience de train fût vraiment intéressante en tant que tel, surtout lorsque nous avons ...
Today i don't feel like doin anything...
... ended way too late and i woke up way too early with a little headache, hm hm... About Ayuthaya, Kanchanaburi and Phitsanulok The former capital of Thailand, Ayuthaya is till now my favorite place...i took a train from Bkk, 2 hours ride and it cost me ...
Waiting for the night-train
... curtains. So you get some kind of privacy. 1h Busfahrt von Sukothai entfernt, haben wir den Tag mit Herumspazieren in Phitsanulok verbracht. Von hier hab ich mir naemlich schon vor ein paar Tagen ein Nachtzug-Ticket nach Bangkok gekauft. Patrick wollte ...
Travel Day with a stop at Wat Tha Sung
Much of today was a travel day but with a stop at an interesting, but gaudy temple, Wat Tha Sung also known as Wat Chantaram. It was built in the Ayutthaya period. There are two main pavillions to the temple. One of ...
Auf dem Weg nach Norden!
Heute hiess es dann auf Richtung Norden! Zuerst einmal mit dem 3 Klasse Zug von Ayuttaya nach Phitsanoluk und dann hoffentlich noch mit dem Bus nach Sukhothai. Erst einmal mussten wir uns mit unseren Rucksaecken in den total ueberfuellten Zug quetschen, ...
Sukothai - a bike ride through history
Sukothai - a bike ride through history Sadly Regine got diarrhoea and vomiting on our arrival in Phitsanulok, half way between Chiang Mai and Bangkok by train. Of all things it was probably her absolute favorite Thai dish: Papaya salad. So she was out ...
Kinda norther Thailand
In the early afternoon, we cought a boat back to the 'mainland' of Puhket, and then to the bus station to head back to Bangkok and then farther north. We had some time to kill in Pukhet before the bus got there, so we went around to do some ...
Phitsanulok
Today we visited the Sargent Major Thawee Folk Museum which was very interesting. There was a small section on San Yant (sacred tattoos) explaining the designs and what powers they would give their recipient. I would really ...
Phitsanulok
... not convenient for different reasons). I will mention why wanted to go to Sukhothai though, it was the first capital of Thailand. Phitsanulok was also the capital of Thailand for 25 years sometime there in the early days. Now I think I have ...
Peaceful Phitsanulok
... to the river. One hour foot massage with oils and all kinds of fancy reflexology that left our feet feeling awesome. Phitsanulok was close to Sukhothai, which was the main attraction in the area. Sukhothai is a huge ancient city with many religious ...
City of Temples
Sukothai the most ancient capital of Thailand, our journey here took something like six hours, firstly in a fridge (air con was too high) but as a reward dinner and a snack were served. Following this we had a slow bus in one of the most polluted and ...
Late nights...
... gears seemed to work pretty well again - don't know what they did under the bus back there, but we pulled in to the Phitsanulok bus station at about 2 AM - about 5 hours late. Some crappy flea bag motel/guesthouses around the bus station. We looked ...
Week 2 - Phitsanulok - Day 11
Day 11 - 10/06/11 - Phitsanulok With the extended day in Phitsanulok (extended as it is a great town for a random non-Itinerary visit) we decided to visit the main temple in town. It has the 2nd most revered images of Buddah in Thailand. I can see ...
Phitsanulok
... , I think the locals were taking the piss!!! All in all a very strange and funny night. I would recommend a stop off in Phitsanulok on a Saturday night to break up a journey further north. We have had a good couple of days here, and it was ...
Seeing Double
Phitsanulok isn't the biggest town and there is really only one major thing to see, a Buddha image which is said to be the most beautiful in all of Thailand. We walked across the seemingly deserted town to the temple area. The first ...
Phitsanulok & Sukhothai
On the 4th of November we headed to Phitsanulok on the train. We decided to go for second class fan carriage this time, which wasn't too bad until it hit the night time and a swarm of flies and insects decided to join us. After getting use to them, we ...
Adventures of the Mind
... another 5 days wandering around and Malaysia is more expensive than the rest of SE Asia. But luckily I found a vipassana retreat in N. Thailand that begins on the 9th. I was wanting to do a vipassana retreat before I jump into yoga in India, ...
NYE in the Ass-end of Nowhere
... relief when we saw our station. We were a bit worried that being in a small town out in the sticks of Thailand wouldn't make for a great New Year's Eve Celebration, but we were directed by our hotel manager to a spot he said would ...