Tharaburi Resort Sukhothai

... chat with us. Jill and Dave are two people in their mid-20s from the UK, Jill's parents are from St-Vincent in the Carribeans. They are on a one-year trip and had many interesting stories to share with us. That's the nice thing about travelling, you meet so many interesting people with very divergent points of view.<br><br>A big birthday wish to my sister Elyse, who turns 44 today and looks no more than 32!<br><br>Tomorrow, we head out to Bangkok.

... of the temple ruins!! We cycled about 10km (or slightly more) and took lots of photos on the way!<br><br>Then onto a hotel where we felt slightly under-dressed as this hotel is where the royals from other countries stay! Buffet lunch which was very nice or tho not soo keen on the Thai desserts!! EWWWW!!<br><br>Onto the museum which had all the artifacts in from the temple ruins.... very ...

... annoys me when people ***** about prices to see national treasures in 3rd world countries. What would you pay to enter the Louvre? Or the Coliseum? Why don't people ***** about THAT? 100 baht is about 2 euro, if that is expensive for you and you're going to give the poor ticketing agent a hard time about it then you should just stay home! Yes, it's true that Thai nationals pay much less to enter, as do Cambodians for Ankor and Indians for the Taj but they ...

... revisited. I don't know what I ordered but I'm not really sure that was it. Jessie who can eat about anything wasn't to happy with her choice either. After eating about half of mine I was ready to go. We continue or walk to find a tuk tuk. Now normally we cant walk 10 feet without a tuk tuk driver offering us a ride, here we cant even find one. We walked down to the old city bus station and no tuk tuks, we criss crossed the street, no tuk tuks, we ...

... there is an Old City (where the historical park is located) and the New City (where most people reside, work, etc.) To see the Old City, you must rent bicycles. We saw quite a few larger tour groups walking around this labyrinth of ruins and honestly if I paid what they paid for a guided tour, I would want some mode of transportation. Especially since the weather was again HOT and ...

At 11pm local and 450 kilometers north of Bangkok, the wheels of our hard worn 2nd class bus slowly came to a screeching halt at the bus terminal of Siams's first capital, Sukhothai. While Siam's ancient sister city, Ayuthaya enjoys the status of an eulogised hero having been conqured by the Burmese army in 1767, the city of Sukhothai, Siam's former capital, enjoys a myriad of wonderfully preserved Wats, giant Buddhas, and other ...

... which were just piles of bricks. I find beauty even in the brick piles. After a lunch stop we made friends with a couple and all biked together to a hilltop temple called Wat Saphan Hin. By this time it was getting late and they were starting to shut down access to the temples. A nice police officer let us trek up the hill and enjoy the temple. This was one of my favorites as you have a view of the whole city. We were the only ones up there so it was very peaceful. We lit some incense and ...

... ruins, which have been turned into a historical park. The first day we explored Old Sukhothai center on foot, but we decided to rent a scooter the second day to better explore the outer-lying wats, and we were very glad we did. It allowed us to see more than we could have reached by foot or bicycle, and we greatly enjoyed the view of the countryside it afforded us (not the mention the breeze it created, which was a much appreciated relief in this humid, windless area ...