Sukhothai Travel Blogs

City Centers, morning markets, night bazaars, Wats, delicious Thai food, wonderful people, new friends, the North and South, waterfalls and crystal beaches.

We are looking for another place that called Sukhothai Historical park. (now i'm confused about national park and historical park!! :P) Anyway we found it. It's in town. This is the famous one. If you book a one day trip from Bangkok to Sukhothai but they don't bring you to this…

The ancient city of Sukhothai was the center of the Thai Nation for about 150 years before the rise of Ayuthaya.  The guidebooks claim this to be the must do historical cultural experience in Thailand.  We arrived here after already having more than our fill of wats and Buddhas so may…

Sukhothai, like Chiang Mai, is divided into two parts: the Old City and the New City. There are public buses that run back and forth between the two parts of the town. There is about 12km between the two parts and it is advisable to use the public transportation as it gets hot. The new city is wher…

The day after we arrived in Sukothai we woke up to a much cooler, clearer day than we expected. This actually made it possible for us to rent bicycles to ride around the historical park. Otherwise we were contemplating renting motorbikes for touring the park. Perhaps not as nostalgic as push bikes,…

“Oh boy-oh boy! What a fabulous way to while away the day!” You now find me in Sukhothai, a sizeable town just off the main north-south rail line somewhere between Chiang Mai and Bangkok. I have once more bidden farewell to my ‘home away from home’ SpicyThai Backpackers Hostel. I arrived i…

He Thuisfront, Even een snelle update want over een half uur vertrekt m'n bus. Na een paar dagen chillen(lees: uitslapen, hangen bij waterval/zwembad/park, eten, kroeg, uitslapen etc. etc.) in Chiang Rai ben ik eergister aangekomen in Sukhotai. In het stadje zelf is weinig te doen, …

25 days in Thailand

Hi. On 4/2/09 two girls from little Denmark is on their way east to Vietnam, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. We are back in Denmark 10/6/09 so we have four months to explore. It couldn't be better (yes more time but we don't have enough money ;) ) We have a month in Vietnam and Singapore + Malaysia and two months in Australia. So here you can follow our little adventure. With tons of pictures I promise :)

DAY 1 We woke up early in Ayuthaya so that we could get to Sukhothai as early as possible and chill out for the rest of the day. So we headed to the bus station and hopped on a bus that took us around 6 hours to Sukhothai, but the journey was rather nice so no complaints. When we finally arriver…

Well the bus ended up being late so we didn't get to Sukothai until almost ten p.m. and of course it was raining. We were the only farang (a sometimes humorous, sometimes derogatory term for foreigners) and immediately approached by an older man who was a Saamlaw driver. Saamlaw are kind of like tu…

We decided to try and avoid the worst of the days heat by making the trip from Phitsanulok to Sukhothai nice and early. Unfortunately the fact is that the heat never really goes away this time of year in Central Thailand so even at 7am the air was hot and humid. We had our free breakfast at the Lit…

October 31, 2009Finally, after 9 years and 3 attempts, I made it to Sukhothai... and just in time for the start of Loy Krathong! Such perfect timing to be in the place believed to be where the festival originated. From Chiangmai, the bus took around 5 hours. I arrived in Sukhothai around 2PM. Once …

Wat Thawet, about 8 km north east of Sukhothai is not that much of a special place in itself, although to me it gave a view to another sight on images of the Buddha. The Wat is a nice aiming point taking a bycicle drive from Sukhothai, going over dusty roads between bananatrees, by the water, and r…

If you've seen one set of Thai ruins, you've seen them all. Call me a philistine, but that's how I felt about the remains of Sukhothai's old city: if you're not really into this sort of thing then there's really no need to see Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. And I'm not really into this sort of thing. I'm…