Sukhothai Heritage Resort

... 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.<br><br>11th September<br>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 ...

... to the hotel. It rained a little but it was more refreshing than anything.The rest of the day was spent doing a little bit of not much and little more of nothing at all.I had dinner and the rain arrived. Hard and fast. It poured for about 15 minutes and suddenly stopped. Cool.<br><br>I woke up early this morning and caught the bus to Chiang Mai which is the only city north that I can get to from Sukhothai. I didn't much like Chiang Mai when I was here ...

... journey in Thai. Chris just had to nod and smile the whole time, was funny to watch him and this old monk lost in a mixture of culture not 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 great review in our guidebook. We were not ...

There wasn't that much to do in Sukothai so we only spent a day there. We went and checked out the historical park which contained lots of ruins. Will get some photos up at some point. We arrived to find that for some reason entry was free for the day so that was a result! We hired some bikes and cycled around for hours visiting the various ruins on the map. The bikes were very basic but i actually liked them. Ben got pretty good at the no handed cycling (whilst showing off) so ...

... delicious.  I find Thai spiciness can be quite powerful without destroying the other flavours of a dish, not like, say, Mexican spiciness, which just seems to burn.---I am plagued by sweat and ants.  The former is due to the extreme heat right now.  The latter is due to my laundry.  I washed some underwear recently and hung it to dry (I now know) near an ant colony.  The ants are tenacious and ...

... pierced and we wandered around until 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 and things were ok but when I woke up 2 hours later I felt awful... by the time I got off the bus in ...

Sukhothai, a mi chemin entre Chiang mai et Bangkok, arret tres agreable. Nous avons loue des velos pour la journee et sommes alles au parc historique, dans la vieille ville; les ruines figurent au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, la cite d'origine est la premiere capitale du royaume thailandais. Ces temples datent du XII et XIIIeme siecle et cette periode est consideree comme l'age d'or de la civilisation thailandaise. 45 km de vestiges anciens ...

... my parents and brothers are in Israel and that my boyfriend is in Los Angeles. He seemed stunned for a moment and asked why I was not ashamed to announce that I was gay. I told him I did not see what there was to be ashamed of. He said that in Thailand and Buddhism it is believed that a gay person is one who used to be a woman in a previous life and that it is a transition for the next life to be a real man. I smiled lovingly and said that if that's the ...

After a diabolical night's sleep the night before we got up early and walked to the train station, where we jumped into a depaidated tuk-tuk for the ten minute ride to the local bus station. <br><br>Once there we haggled with various bus company employees before ending up on the type of bus that would normally be found in a scrap yard ...

... Ayutthaya over Chiang Mai. Anybody can live wherever they want, of course, but the language tells the history and traditions. <br><br>My hunch is right. South from Chiang Rai, the fields are burning all over, UNTIL, that is, we get close to Sukhothai, where it miraculously stops and the skies are clear. <br><br>A chat with our taxi driver confirms my conclusion. "Yeah, I heard about the air up there. How bad is it?"<br><br>&#8220;Up there ...