Mountain View Guest House Sukhothai

Unsere Reise fuehrte uns ueber Bangkok in die ehemalige Koenigsstadt Sukhothai (ca. 1230-1350). Am Busbahnhof wurden wir von einem Deutsch sprechenden Einheimischen angesprochen ob wir nicht in sein neu eroeffnetes Guesthouse kommen wollen. Zuerst waren wegen des etwa hoeheren Preises skeptisch doch wir genossen die Zeit in der Unterkunft die in Punkto ...

... and they really did make us feel at home. The food was delicious, their knowledge was priceless, and not to mention they introduced us to Channel 7 in Thailand, which has some bizarre Thai Soap's on it. Emma is now hooked.

11th September
Just in case you are wondering why the town is called New Sukhothai, the old town is home to the famous ruins, which we would explore the next day. To get there we woke up at 6am for breakfast and then headed into town to ...

Up the next day after 3 hours sleep and onto the elephant centre in Lampang. Which was amazing. They put on a show of curtseying, working (shifting logs) instrument playing, painting elephants. Then we got to feed them before an elephant ride . When we turned up though before the show Pui had told us how two of the babies would get all excited as she always gives them sweeties. Sure enough they trumpted and ...

... at all... the teak built rooms all surrounded a courtyard with a beautiful pool. The traditional Thai furniture that surrounded the pool added to the effect and it felt like we had arrived in heaven.....straight after dropping our bags we jumped in the pool and cooled down after our journey. As night fell we walked into the town searching for the busy night market mentioned in our guidebook...after much searching and trying to ...

... started to practice and got quite good at it myself, although admitedly he won (annoyingly). After we had checked out the musuem which wasnt great, and most of the park, ben had had enough so went back to the hostel. Me and Mark were enjoying the cycling too much so we decided to make the trip to the ruins on the outskirts which we had previously ignored as they were far away. Cycled there but wasnt great so we headed back. Had a good laugh, and got a lot of sun, 5hours flew by!

... and seem to have hitched a ride on all the shorts I brought in, including the ones I am now wearing.  The little pests can only be detected when they bite.  Which they do.  I am trying not to look crazy in this restaurant as I alternatingly scratch furiously all over and wince with pain as certain parts of me are bitten.  This is uncomfortable.---The ruins of the ancient Thai capital of Sukhothai ...

... I was ready to lose my cookies. We hopped on the closest tuk tuk to take us the the nearest guest house where I had the worst night of my life. I slept for about 15 minutes at a time very infrequently and when I wasnt in bed I was getting friendly with the bathroom.. Thank God it was clean. The next morning was no better. I spent the whole day sleeping on and off and not feeling any ...

... de boudhas de toutes tailles, beaucoup sont detruits, j'en ai d'ailleurs recolte un fragment en souvenirs. Il y a une vibration toute particuliere dans cet endroit, il vous impose son silence et son calme. Nous nous sommes attardes dans les jardins d'un temple encore habite par des bonzes, diverses messages de sagesse parsemaient les arbres: "La richesse de l'esprit est la seule qui existe." "Le contentement est une richesse naturelle, la ...

... come wrapped in unappealing packages so I let him do his magic and surprisingly, for the next 10 minutes, my eyes actually felt better.



Two villagers came to visit. One of them said that he can heal me, but

only after dark. For a piece of paper with my name written on it, along with 5 baht, he will cast a spell on me tonight (thankfully I did not have to be present) and my eyes will be cured by tomorrow morning. My local eye doctor, who I ...