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Sukhothai Slideshow
Sukhothai
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Ruins, etc
We arrived in town late at night and got up early the next day to continue our tour of Thailand's best ruins. We hired some bikes and pedalled around for a few hours, taking in everything we deemed worthwhile. It didn't take us too long as we're now a bit ...
Two days of wat-filled excitement
... which honors the spirits of the water and marks the end of the rainy season. It's celebrated all over Thailand, but with special fanfare in Sukhothai, the ancient capitol of Thailand. I took a six hour bus ride north from Bangkok to Sukhothai on the ...
More Wat
So after another 5 hour bus ride to Sukhothai bus station I get a taxi to my guest house which was very nice, I have really been living in luxury on this tour so far, my room has a double bed, airco and private bathroom. Also my guest house is in the ...
Sizzling in Sukhothai
1. Riding bicylces amongst Old Historical Sukhthai and ruins: It been a while since we've both ridden bicylces, but this was a great way to get reaquainted. It was prefect to bike between the various wats as the Historical town is ...
Fahrt nach Sukhothai
Hallo zusammen, heute morgen sind wir mit dem Bus um 10:15 von Chiang Mai nach Sukhothai gestartet. Die Busfahrt dauerte ca. 5,5 Stunden, so dass wir gegen kurz vor 16 Uhr in unserem Hostel angekommen sind. Wir haben uns dann erst einmal ein Restaurant ...
Traveling among the Microbes
... . I got home and went to bed as we had an early train the next morning - Chiang Mai to Pitsanoolok (near the ruins of Sukhothai). It was about about midnight, when I became aware that I had some microbes on board. I was hit with Traveler's Diarrhea ...
Leaving Bangkok a go-go
... toured the canal in Bangkok by long boat and then boarded a public bus to start our journey north it was a 6 hour bus ride to Sukhothai and we got in pretty late so we just headed out to a local bar. There really isn't too much around ...
Sokhothai
Following a partial recovery, I managed to get out and visit the ruins of the 13th Century capitol of Siam. It is called Sukhothai. This is the place where the Thai alphabet was developed. A kingdom was formed here, and it ruled for many years before ...
Second Ruin Site
Since we'd just been in the jungle, and Chiang Mai is primarily known for its trekking opportunities, we decide to move on to the next ruin site instead of staying another day. This would save us some time, which we began to realize was starting to run ...
Rising Happiness
... authority kept on announcing) to celebrate Loy Krathong. While the festival is celebrated all over Thailand, three cities (Chiang Mai, Bangkok, and Sukhothai) hold the most elaborate celebrations and therefore become major attractions. Hundreds of ...
Sukhotahaï… et les coups de chaleur
... expérience 'découvertes à vélo’ à Ayutthaya, nous avons décidé de répéter l’activité aux ruines de Sukhothai. Nous sommes arrivés tôt, alors que l’air est encore frais. Le temps idéal pour admirer les nénufars roses grand ...
Onward ho!
Once the ancient capital of the Thai Kingdom, Sukhothai has temples similar to Angkor and gave us another excuse to jump aboard some bicycles for an afternoon of exploring. All interesting sights and good photos ...
2nd day in Sukhothai
Celebrated Simon's biurthday last night in a very local restaurant near the guesthouse and we all saw our first elephant!! :D And what a day!! Started off with a lovely breakfast, tasting the local jam, hibiscus, mango and something else we weren't too ...
Sinking beyond low
... , we knew that it was a small town but this is where all the tourist accomodations are located to support the Old Sukhothai, situated 12 kms away. The Old Town is where the Thai kings first established their capital in 1238. Today, the ...
Sukhothai
this is pretty much the same a Ayutthaya just better kept...the wats dont have the same wow facter ...
Foodie Goodies
For the special foodie request, here it is: a whole entry dedicated to the delicious, disgusting, peculiar, and delectable food experiences of our traveling. If you don't feel like hearing long-winded blabber about chili peppers and noodles, you can ...
Ready, Steady Cook!
Ingredients bought, we head back to the guest house for our private cooking lesson. We are both given aprons to wear - very fetching I must say! THen the hard work begins... Macey had to grate the whole of a coconut (- not easy work!) despite the fact ...
Thailand's Answer to Angkor Wat
... a plethora of excavated temples and the ruins of old palaces. Most of these ruins can be explored by visiting the Sukhothai Historical Park, where you can rent a bicycle or motorbike and spend hours riding around these magnificent sites, surrounded by ...
Jun 25, 2009
Sukhothai
... The people there are extremely helpful and have taught us alot about the area. Today we rented bikes and rode around Old Sukhothai, which is a city of ruins. It was a little cooler, temperature wise, because the park has lots ...
Day 57: Sukhothai
... bronze, 14th-century, Hindu deities, with rich costume jewellery are sublime. The locally crafted Sangkalok pottery was the Sukhothai period's most successful export, and numerous examples of green-and brown-glazed ceramics are on display, along with the ...
Phitsanulok And Sukhothai
... trip) We headed back out the bus station and caught the local bus to Sukhothai which is the first capital that Thailand ever had. Once we arrived at Sukhothai we were put on another bus to get to the park ¡V this worried us as the guidebook says ...
Hell's Train
... he encontrado. Una aventura no recomendable para gente con escrupulos i con dificultad de dormir en sitios incomodos. Campo base en Sukhothai para explorar las ruinas de la primera capital del imperio Siam, estoy en el Guest House Ban Thai for 150 ...
do NOT let me wear this shirt again
The reason for the Phi-lok stop was to take this day-trip to the historical town of Sukhothai. Let's just say that we could not have picked a hotter day to take a non-AC bus and bike around ruins. But our bikes were really sweet, bright pink ...
DAY 56: Bangkok to Sukhothai
... T-shirts for the occasion - yellow represents the day of the king's birth.) The spotless, spacious, air-con coach to Sukhothai couldn't be more different, more comfortable, compared to the bone-jarring, limb-crushing buses in Nepal. Crew even bring ...
First Capital of Thailand
On Monday we took a 1 hour bus to Sukhotai, the first capital of Thailand. The old part of the city has 700 year old ruins of old temples, old Buddahs, Chedis and Wats. Magnificent hand work sculpting stone to make some great looking buildings. As usual, ...
Motorbiking around Old Sukhothai
... with some of our new Chinese friends, and had a blasty blast riding around the ancient temples of the old Thai capital, Sukhothai. That's it really... I don't know how to write anything remotely interesting about a new temple that I've seen or ...
The Ruins of Siam
... are thoughts that I only have now at my ripe old age. We stopped at a gas station, the gas attendants seemed to know him (Sukhothai is a village of 33,000) and so it made me feel better that they weren't shocked that he was driving. He actually drove ...