Ruins, Temples and yet more ruins

Trip Start Jan 06, 2006
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Trip End Mar 07, 2006


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Thursday, January 12, 2006

Yesterday myself and 4 others visited the Elephant Sanctuary near Lampang. It was fantastic - we had an opportunity to feed the elephants and also saw how they made paper from the dung. Donna and Roger had a go which involved dissolving a large ball of bleached dung in a tray of water. Just hope they scrubbed under their nails before they had lunch!

Today we had a long drive to Si Satchanalai and then on to Sukhothai. At Si Satchanalai we saw lots of ancient Wats. It was very interesting but I was getting a bit of Wat and Budda overload by the end. At Sukhothai we hired bicycles and Piak (our Explore guide) lead us around the Old City. It was great fun as there was hardly any traffic and it had cooled down by then. We found a good spot to watch what turned out to be a spectacular sunset.

Sukhothai was the first capital of Siam up to the end of the 1400's before going into decline as Ayutthaya took over as the most important city in the area. It was discovered as a 'lost city in the jungle' in the 19th century (see I was paying attention!)

We had a wander around the new town in the evening but Sukhothai is a very quiet town and apart from a few small restaurants everything was closed by 9.30pm
Sukhothai hotels Slideshow

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