Old City Guest House Sukhothai

... a bicycle for about $1 (no motorbike, this time!) and pedaled my way around the core of the old city.  To tour all of the ruins of Old Sukhothai would take at least a couple days (it’s about 70 square kilometers!), so I just focused on the ...

... an issue as there were many of them waiting in the premise of the bus station. We hopped on one of them to our guest house. Sukhothai New City was unlike other Thai cities or towns that I had visited so far, it had a much "local" feel and less touristy ...

... and they were on their honeymoon as well. We swapped stories and then they asked if we had a place yet. We told them about our guest house and they guy looked it up in his Lonely Planet book. He said "oh, the expensive place." then he said, "well, it is ...

... We arrived at Phitsanuluk on time (well plus 4.5 hours) and getting dark. Turned out the Swiss couple were also going to Sukhothai (to  the old city rather than me to the new city - they are 14km apart). They were planning to get a taxi for the ...

... and first step Sukhothai. The ancient capital city of Thailand, and some amazing ruins. The spot we were staying at just outside of the old city was run by an Italian who had been in the country for the last 13 years. His tip was to tour early in ...

... story more melancholy than Eastenders. Sukhuthai 'a rising of happiness'  appears just in time. Not one place but 3 - a province, an Old City and New Sukhuthai. Our bus delivers us to the 'New' where we rigorously bargain with a songtaew driver for a ...

... and we had tolerated all we could bear. We grabbed some photos of the pretty costumes and headed back to our guest house.. We were situated in the part of Sukhothai known as New Sukhothai. We had come to this place to see the remnants of a once great ...

... of Thailand where the royal family emerged and where the Thai language was even born.  In present day Sukhothai there is an Old City (where the historical park is located) and the New City (where most people reside, work, etc.) To ...

... a tuk-tuk to take me to No.4 Guest House. Tuk-tuks are motorcycle cabs that have seats in the back under a canopy. I found the guest house from Lonely Planet, it was cheap. The driver had a hard time finding it. It took like 20 minutes. As I was leaving ...

... and no one was selling chicken - but funny enough, chickens were still running around in yards. We dined at the Baan Thai guest house - which offers Thai cooking classes. We were lucky enough to sample some shrimp rolls.   On day two and three, ...

... 2m by 2m – huge! Quite interesting to share the bedroom with a couple of small lizards who flitted about the room. The Guest House is quite delightful about 300m down a dirt track off the main road. It is surrounded by greenery and indeed you have ...

... hours later.  We took a tuk-tuk to the bus station and took a bus one hour to the village of New Sukhothai.  We had another great guest house (called the At Home Guest House) where we were able to rest and relax when not out looking at the ...

... 14 km from the new part of the city, and I had the idea that I would take one of the guest house's bikes and ride to the Old City, certain that the bikes would be better than my small but sturdy Ayutthaya transportation.  The look of shock/horror on ...

... , still with no sign of the city or our guesthouse, we realised that we could never have walked the whole way with our packs! The guest house lies down a narrow road beside the river, off the main road in New Sukothai. It has a pleasant garden and a large ...

... a sea of people, stalls and bright lights. Now we were really felt like we had arrived in Bangkok. On our way trying to find a guest house that feeling was cemented when we saw a passed out tramp with what looked like leprosy as he had no skin left and a ...

... we had to go the bakery instead for 2 wedges of chocolate and coffee cake...to have with our tea when we got back to the guest house.... we have decided to move on  chiang mai tommorrow as we have seen all the temples today and would be wasting a ...

... there are extremely helpful and have taught us alot about the area.  Today we rented bikes and rode around Old Sukhothai, which is a city of ruins.  It was a little cooler, temperature wise,  because the park has lots of moats, ...

... via 2nd class train. After befriending some Australian backpackers in the train station, I was convinced to tag along to Sukhothai, the old capital of Thailand filled with over 219 wats, or Buddhist temples. The company on the train was great, and made ...

... been a bit wrecked today. Anyway, so eventually I got to sukhothai bus terminal, where I managed to pick up a tuk tuk ride to my guest house (my first experience, they drive like lunatics and it was kind of scary!). I got to the guest house and spoke to ...

... and smiled at the bus driver who knew that we didn't have any idea what we were doing!! Once at the park, we found a cool guest house that was within our price range and settled in.  Since it was around 2:00pm when we arrived we opted to lay low for ...