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Sukhothai Slideshow
Sukhothai
Travel Blogs from Sukhothai, Thailand
Ancient Capital
... with pain as certain parts of me are bitten. This is uncomfortable.---The ruins of the ancient Thai capital of Sukhothai were amazing. The seven hundred-year-old temples all seem somehow recently inhabited and used. The beneficent smiles of their ...
Sukhothai
... capital of a previous regional empire, some of which has been restored following conflicts with Myanmar (Burma). On arrival in Old Sukhothai as we were getting out of the Songthaew (small open-backed truck with benches) we were approached about hiring ...
Bicycle riding
... I am now addicted to these and Banana shakes we have a reasonably early night as a big day ahead. We headed to the old Sukhothai historical site by local bus (20 baht) and hire a bike each (20 baht) as this we are told is the best way to ...
Sukhotai....raindrops keep failing on my head !!
... knowing at all what each was saying. After about an hour we changed buses and before long we arrived at the bus terminal in Sukhothai. Grabbing a taxi (again a truck with bench seats in the back) we headed to our hotel, The Ruean Thai Hotel, which had a ...
Visite de Sukhotai et sortie...
Nous levons tot ce matin, petit dejeunons, puis louons deux scooters. Partons jusqu'a la vieille ville de Sukhotai, premiere capitale du Siam fondee en 1238, qui mit fin a la domination Khmer. L'architecture ici change de l'influence hindoue, khmer et ...
Bus pour Sukhothai
... 00h50 ce soir. On veut aller a Phitsanuloke, mais dans le taxi, apres avoir mieux lu le Lonely Planet, on decide de partir pour Sukhothai en fait. Le taxi nous depose au terminal de bus, on achete un billet pour 14h40. Puis on attend. On attend, et ...
Wet and wild
A songthaew, a train, a tuc-tuc, a bus and then another songthaew finally brought us to Sukhothai, the overload of transport varieties being due to train and bus stations always being so thoughtfully placed well out of town. However, the fact ...
Day 5 - Ruines & Nature in the ancient capital
... l'occasion j'aide les gens a embarquer leur enormes paniers que les femmes Thai emmene sur leur epaules jusqu'au marche. - Sukhothai etait la 1ere capitale de la Thailande autour du 13eme siecle pour 200 ans avant que Ayutthaya prenne la suite... ...
a daytrip to Sukhothai Historical Park
... her older brother, her sister in law and their beautiful children) picked me up at 10 am at the hotel. Sukhothai once was the capital of Thailand about 1000 to 800 years ago and a splendid city. It's about 80 kilometers from Phitsanulok and can be ...
The 3 week tour begins....
... 1 Canadian and 1 Swiss guy. On Monday we pretty much travelled all day on a 5 (more like 6 hrs) train journey to Sukhothai. Then straight onto a Songtaew (like a van/truck with benches in the back). Got to Guesthouse and ate dinner, so a pretty ...
Visite de Sukhothai...
Lever vers 8 heures, a 9 heures on est pret a decoller. On loue deux scooters et partons visiter Sukhothai, enfin surtout Cedric car moi ca fait ma troisieme fois... Donc on refait exactement ce que j'ai fait avec Dino au mois d'aout. Sauf que l'on va ...
Sunburnt in Sukhothai
... nbsp;leaped straight in a songthaew to Old Sukhothai and the Historical Site to make the most of my day here. Sukhothai presided as capital of Thailand for 150 years (1238-1376) until Ayutthaya (then known as Siam) wrested power & ...
Eine Provinzstadt mit Historischer Stätte
... sich auch wirkich gelohnt, denn es gelang mir, was mir gestern versagt geblieben war: ich bekam die örtliche Spezialität Sukhothai Noodles, eine Art Nudelsuppe mit Schweinefleisch und grünen Bohnen, nicht scharf sondern leicht süß und sehr lecker. ...
Ghost Town
... of the trip closing in fast, we reluctantly decided not to go to Laos and focus on the last bit of Thailand with a quick jaunt out to Cambodia. First stop - Sukhothai to soak up a bit of history. We arrived off the 6 hour bus, dropped off our bags and ...
bye bye Pai
... 3 when we hopped on the bus to Chiang Mai. We arrived at about 6pm, and killed two hours until we got on another bus to Sukhothai. thats when things got bad.... About an hour into the 4 hr trip I started to feel a little woozy.. I went to sleep ...
New to old
... impressed with my ability to use this with a small backpack on!), and then boarded the covered pickup truck to Sukhothai, which is the old capital of Thailand. We checked into our hotel and then went to see the ancient ruins. You could choose to walk, ...
Sukhothai (temporary placeholder)
Here, I visited some very pretty ruined temples. Unfortunately, the rainy season seemed to start a month or so early this year. It's been raining pretty much nonstop for the past few days. I hope it stops soon! Because I'm so far behind ...
Temples and Flying Morning Glory
... restaurant we ate at in 1994!!!!!! It now sells 'pick up' shots of herbal medicine - they really hit the spot! The Sukhothai Historical Park was just as remembered. We hired bikes to tour the inner moat area, had my photo taken with John in ...
Pedras, bananas e caramujos...
... da guesthouse ate a rodoviaria. Meu onibus sai a uma e meia da manha. Chego na estacao a meia noite. Confesso que me esqueci que Sukhothai e uma cidade menor. Na estacao nesse momento so ha eu e um bando de motoristas de tuk-tuk. Ha o mendigo barbudo e o ...
Inspiring buddhas
Today Hannah took a rest day (she is great at recognizing when she needs this- I could take a lesson there!) and Gryphon and I headed to the old city to cycle around the ruins of the Sukothai kingdom. I think I was a bit slow and mesmerized for Gryph, as ...
Sukhothai - the golden age in Thai history
... and southern China into the Mekong River valley, Khmer kingdom based in present-day Cambodia expanded into present-day Thailand. Sukhothai was one of the administrative capitals of Khmer empire. Khmers were a highly developed society with its capital at ...
Love the Ancient city NOT the new...
... town, we saw a few guesthouses in the old town that would of been a better location in this city. Our accommodation at the Sukhothai guesthouse (600 baht = $20 per night) wasn’t bad but we didn’t like the new town. I think we were ...
Quando a vida esta salgada...Pepsi-cola
... a rodoviaria mas eu sei que tem um onibus publico que vai por muitos poucos bahts. Chego na rodoviaria e compro passagem para Sukhothai. O onibus leva mais de uma hora para sair. Estou com sono mas me mantenho acordado assistindo ao filme que e exibido ...
Sukhothai ruins on bikes
We pretty much did the same thing as in Ayutthaya namely biking around ancient Thai ruins. It was a Thai national holiday or heritage thing of some sort so we got in for free but had to do interviews for school children. They shoved camera ...
Thailand - Back in the game (MW)
... were in and out like a... well, lets just say it was quick. We spent our first few nights back in Thailand in Ayuthaya, Phitsanulok and Sukhothai which are home to some of Thailand’s most famed Buddhist temple sites. More importantly, we were back ...
Sukhothai
... did not dissapoint. Unlike the ruins of Ayuthaya which are randomly scattered admidst a bustling metropolis, the ruins of Sukhothai are asthetically located approximatley 15km away from the city center among a serene park filled with flowers, trees, and ...
Old Sukhothai
At breakfast we abandon any notion of cold food from the buffet other than the food that's supposed to be cold ie the fruit. While we eat we notice two Harley Davidsons parked up. Standing beside these a Thai man wearing full leathers that are ...
Dawn to Dusk
... We had been wondering what the best way to get back to Bangkok would be when a bus pulls up alongside our restaurant with Bangkok/Sukhothai on its side. John checks it out and we book tickets for the 9 am bus tomorrow morning (having noted that today's ...