No. 4 Guesthouse Sukhothai

... Park was just as remembered.  We hired bikes to tour the inner moat area, had my photo taken with John in typical thai pose, then jumped in the car to visit the outer temples before heading off to Phitsanulok to have lunch at the "legs-hanging rice noodle" restaurant on the river.  This is now countrywide famous thanks to a thai tv chef and got its name because you eat your noodles whilst sitting at a tall ...

... one restaurant in the whole place!
We spent the day on our rented bikes taking in the historical ruins. THey were simalar in style to the ones we saw in my son so we were happy to have a look and get round the area quickly enough to enjoy the afternoon in the sun.
it was a good place to visit but certainly wouldn't spend longer than one night here if it can be helped.

next stop chang mai!

... there if they want).

It would seem that Sukothai is a much wetter area than the others we have been in recently. The plant growth is much richer and there is a moist atmosphere all around even though it is not actually raining at present. This was confirmed as we went to bed the first night and realised that we were completely surrounded by numbers of frogs humming, croaking and barking at incredible volume. Our shed has mesh windows which do not give much ...

... to honor Boon Lott's memory, and to create a home to protect and respect Thai elephants that are in grave danger. She first rescued Pang Tong, Boon Lott's mother, and saved her from returning to a cruel life of illegal logging work. Seven more elephants, each with their own touching stories, have joined Pang Tong so far. What is it like to visit BLES? Located in Si Sathchenalai, in Sukhothai province, there are beautiful Thai villages and towns nearby. BLES is about an ...

... to eat. We were not sure if we were supposed to eat the inside or the outside. The outside was papery and the inside was like a little rock. She sat there and happily crunched away while most of us tried to discreetly get rid of the thing in our mouths. I think one guy was able to eat his but his face was so disgusting looking I didn't take an offer for another rock nut. We made it back to town and started walking back to our hostel and stopped to try and buy some ...

... Laird ** Atonement - Ian McEwan *** The Tesseract - Alex Garland ** Mr Vertigo - Paul Auster *** Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro *** The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank ** The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger *** The Pelican Brief - John Grisham ** Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier *** Gap Creek - Robert Morgan * All my friends are going to be strangers - Larry McMurtry *** Chasing Cezanne - Peter Mayle (rubbish)

... with seated Buddha sculptures. The largest Buddha includes a 9m standing Buddha amongst broken columns. Other notable ones include Wat Si Sawai, originally a Hindu temple and later Buddhified and Wat San Kao where the base of the Chedi is supported by elephant sculptures.

... and arrived over two hours late. Then we still had another two hour bus ride to Sukhothai. But since we are in no great rush, we could shrug it off and enjoy the scenery.

We pulled the windows down in the train, drank in the breeze, and watched the endless green of rice paddies blur past. I think they produce the brightest shade of natural green I've ever seen.







Su khothai, which means "the dawn of happiness," is considered the ...