Mountain View Guest House Sukhothai

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I wandered the ruins in the central zone for two hours before I went to park's museum. The ruins were fantastic i wander around imagining what it must have been like to be a Thai prince and princess worshipping in one of these chedis hundreds of years ago. The park's museum had a huge amount of preserved pottery some of it really beatiful. But it also had a really annoying English voice over describing the potting process. It ...

... or they are treating it like some kind of spicy relish, only off-putting until they've had a couple of beers!

Anyway, we're going to tighten up on our DEET-applying regime in preparation for Laos and Cambodia. We start taking our Malaria tablets tomorrow and have 2 nights in Khon Kaen before heading over the border at "Friendship Bridge" and into Vientiane.

Photos to follow soon.

Mark

... that in Sukhothai.

On this particular day, lots of different schools were on a field trip and hundreds of children in brightly colour coordinated uniforms were running around the temples counting statues of elephants and Buddha. It was a fun sight and the actual highlight of the day. They were extremely shy and they would shout "hello, whats your name" but never give us an answer when we asked back. We even saw a few little girls trip over as they starred at me ...

... you spell it so i'm off to go and take come pictures and maybe join in!!) love u lots xxx

From Sarah - WOOOO MUM :D that is soo good - you deserve it :D wooo! First impressions of Bangkok were reali strange - no sense of safety on the road - real difference between rich and poor - was a bit shocking but reali nice place - the street we went on to for the market was majority tourists, where as the other nite was more for local people ...

... think Wichita's streets roll up at sundown you aint seen nothing until you come here. I think by 6pm everything was pretty much closed and this is on a Saturday night. We stopped at another vendor and ate a better meal. Back to the room to pack up, play with the puppy and sleep in the air conditioning. 04/05/09 We got up ate breakfast, said our goodbyes, caught a tuk tuk to the bus station and boarded a bus to Bangkok. This time we stowed our ...

... another site for temples ruins but with a bit more animal ornamentation than the other cities we had seen. We had another day out on our bicycles only we made a near fatal mistake by riding our bicycles over a wood plank bridge that swayed from side to side. Instead of trying to get off the bikes and walking them across, we had to keep riding through since the bridge was so narrow and ...

... revoering well. Unfortunately, I wasn't quick enough on the camera draw to capture the moment. Just kidding. Finally, after a full day of Wats, Buddhas, and blood, we headed back to our lodging for some more exquisite street vendor food, hot shower, and night's rest. For day two exploratory journey, we gathered our gear, strapped on our helmets, and fueled up our chopper (i.e. scooter), "the pink lady." While it was Christin's ...

... we had in the UK last month, put it that way, the floods we'd seen on the Thai News reports were ferocious.

I'm a bit gutted about the grey skies because the photos aren't coming out very well, but I guess I should be happy that we've avoided any apocalyptic downpours... so far!

The temples and statues themselves were ...

... I want to track this burning situation and see if my hunch is correct. Government officials say they can’t find the source of the problem, and the mayor of Chiang Mai says he’ll solve the problem by starting Songkran (the water festival) early. I think I can do better than that.

Anyway my plane ticket for Penang is from BKK, so we might as well be creative. Since I’ve heard nothing about smoke problems elsewhere in ...