After a long walk in the blazing mid day heat with back packs on we finally found the 'bus station' which turned out to be a lay-by! Our bus was then over an hour late, during which time we were sujected to a horrendous teenagery Thai top of the pops - Simon Cowell would have had a field day!! Arrived in Phitsanulok and found somewhere to stay t...

Phitsanulok: stayed for one night at a wonderful place: Lithai GH, went to see the famous Wat Phra Si Ratana Maharathat and that's all.

Ruins of the royal palaces, Buddhist temples, the city gates, walls, moats, dams, ditches, ponds, canals etc.... write more later!!!