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Sukhothai Slideshow
Sukhothai
Travel Blogs from Sukhothai, Thailand
The Ancient Capital
... its devotion and practices. So after several hours of exploring the site and seeing the fallen ruins of ancient Thailand, we departed for New Sukhothai, checked out of our guest house, and headed for a neighboring city called Phittsanoluk. The ...
Sukhothai vs Ayutthaya
... a sweet little bungalow with hot water and a fan for the same price as the room) I would definitely recommend Ayutthaya over Sukhothai. It's just an hour from Bangkok, the main ruins are all pretty close together and you can walk between them, ...
Hi everyone i've been in sukhothai since ...
Hi everyone I've been in Sukhothai since Tuesday evening (it took all day on taxis, train, pedicab, bus, jumbo to get here). I only meant to stay one day or so - just long enough to see the ancient city and get a ticket to Laos - but the town is nice ...
Strange smells and sights...! JUST FOR YOU NAT!!
What a perfect opportunity - teaching macey to cook in THailand!! First things first - we have to drag him down to the market to gather the ingredients. We chose to cook Green Thai curry, Spring Rolls with shrimp, Tom Yum (soup with fish) and ...
More Wats
Just lots more wats & buddhas. The last before Cambodia fortunately (thank Buddha for ...
Sukhothai - Thailands premier capital
a confession. I have shamelessly plagiarised Kerry's e-mail to her mum for this entry as I am lazy and anyway it's a fitting break to my sensationalist ranting vitriolic crap.... We hired bikes today and cycled around the old city for about five ...
Sukhothai
... tomorrow.. I have a few things that I would love to pass on.. Bike riding hurts your bum! The sun is very hot in Thailand and whatever they say water does not quench your thirst. So tomorrow when I have more energy I will go into the different Wats ...
Floods in Northern Thailand
Flood Adventures It hasn't been long since the last one but we thought we should tell you about our little adventure as people may have been worried especially if they had seen it on the news. Most importantly of all is that we are perfectly save and ...
The Historical Park
... the endless green of rice paddies blur past. I think they produce the brightest shade of natural green I've ever seen. Sukhothai, which means "the dawn of happiness," is considered the cradle of Thai civilization. It was established in the 1200s as the ...
New and Old
... a 10 minute local bus ride away for 20baht (40pence) - although sometimes they try to charge more... infact, Sukhothai has been the worst place i've been in Thailand thus far for bus drivers trying to overcharge farang, but again, my thai has come along ...
Sukhothai
O Reino de Sukhothai ("Ascensão da Felicidade") floresceu na região a norte de Bangkok do meio do séc. XIII ao fim do séc. XIV, um período frequentemente referido como uma época de ouro da civilização thai. Neste período ...
Nice easy cycle in the sun!
... fish options. After this we just again had an early night so that we could make the most of our only day in Sukhothai before continuing our journey further up north the following day. We woke up pretty early to explore to area but everything worth seeing ...
Wat the @#&$ is Songkram?
... the coward I am (that was until I needed to go outside for something to eat and got mildly drenched), but here in Sukhothai there's no escaping it. I'm not kidding, absolutely sodded to the bone on numerous occasions, the worst being our last attempt to ...
Sukhothai
Saturday morning, Dane, Martin, Sebastian and I all hopped a bus in Phayao for a short trip down to the ruins in Sukhothai, Thailand's first ancient capital...6 grueling hours later we arrived with not enough time to make it out to the old city and back ...
Frequently asked questions
... I am and what I'm up to. I caught a train up to Phitsanulok for a few days, then took a bus over to Sukhothai. Sukhothai is the site of another group of ruins, most of them dating back to the 13th and 14th century. It's kind of the ...
One down, one to go...
... I guess that's what happens when you go cross-country on a bike which is essentially an aggy... ------- Well... made it back to Sukhothai, it's not purring but it's running, a few funky noises, hopefully Chiang Mai tomorrow. I think a 'proper early' ...
Buses, Trains, Tuk-tuks, Bikes, and more Buses
... the most about being here is that there are very few tourists. Of course, this is only in comparison to everywhere else in Thailand, as there were still a good number of foreigners walking around, but it isn't as visible here. Because Sukkhotai is off the ...
Historische Tempel / Historic Temples
Destination 124: km79'736 Bestens ausgeschlafen wurde vor dem Verlassen der Stadt der gleichnamige Historic Park mit historischen Tempelruinen besichtigt. Via Phitsanulok wurde dort ebenso unterwegs der dortige Tempel Wat Phra Si Ratana Mahathat ...
Which way to the beach??
... the perfect frame to this familiar picure of rural Thai life. The train pulled into Phitsanulok just after two, and the connecting bus to Sukhothai left merely a few minutes after. For my few days in the town I stayed at "At Home" guesthouse, a 50 ...
The Ancient City of Sukhothai, Thailand
... woman from Holland named Chantalle. Cycling was easy because Sukhothai is pretty flat but it was also difficult because Sukhothai is one of the hottest places in Thailand and it didn't rain to cool us down. Mam took us around the farming lands and we ...
Thai ruins
... '5 baht'. I haven't found anywhere else in thailand that doesn't imediately try to rip off travellers. Sukhothai has a relaxed feeling that I imagine is how thailand would be if it wasn't full of tourists. Actually, all of thailand is relaxed in that ...
Old Sukhothai
After 33 hours of non-stop travel from Krabi in southern Thailand (truck, bus, train, bus, truck) we finally reached Sukhothai in northern Thialand. Sukhothai used to be the capital of the Thai kingdom several hundreds of years ago and as a result there ...
Depart et arrivee a Sukhotai..
Le reveil sonne a 7 h30, mais comme je suis mort je continue de dormir. Dino vient me reveiller vers 8 h, mais je me donne jusqu'a 8h40 car vraiment j'ai la gueule de bois. Me leve, me douche, prepare mon sac et vais en face a l'agence de voyages ou ...
Race through Ruins Part 1 - Sukhothai
... , while the bike ticket was only printed with Thai numbers. We thought no more about it and pedaled off to explore. The Sukhothai ruins are quite impressive, although they seem to have done some old repairs in concrete, which have caused more damage and ...
The old capital of Thailand
Jan 18 06 - Jan 19 06 We left Bangkok by bus at 8pm on Jan 18, for a scheduled trip of 9 hours to Sukhothai (up north)... But I guess as every trip goes, everything starts changing pretty soon - we are rescheduled to another bus, that finally took ...
Bangkok en route to Sukhothai
... have to hang around till 8.30 to pay for the extendsion on our plane tickets then I think we'll be going straight up to Sukhothai. So, another 4 hours of blogging to go!!! :) WEll, the blogging on the same day thing didn't work out for long. ...
Bus and Sangtheaw
... . The next morning I was up early to visit the museum which went throught the history including Dvaravati, lopburi,sukhothai,lanna, chiangsaen, u-thong, ayutthaya tarranokasin periods. The thais settled at the site of Sukhothai in about the 12th to ...
Sukhothai
... got on the 6hr bus to Sukhothai, one of the the old capital cities and probably the best set of ruins in Thailand. By the way, Sukhothai means 'rising happiness', I can't imagine us calling London that! On arriving I got a cheap room (that ...
From Gibbons to Elephants
... watch and I can understand why people go back year after year. Today I have left all that behind and I'm in Sukhothai, I've cycled round some ruins and I'm typing away before the overnight bus to Bangkok, where apparently everyone gets stuff ...