Day 6: After a yummy breakfast of fried eggs, toast and pancakes we packed our luggage, caught a tuk tuk back to the Sukhothai main bus station and bought our tickets to Chiang Mai. It seemed we may have missed the 11:00 bus (or it had an "accident" as we had heard a number of times in previous days) so we waited the hour or so till the 11:50 bus. It came! The first win considering yesterday's experience. We hopped on and began the long journey north - taking a...

Day 5: Having caught a tuk tuk from the hotel to the main bus station, we bought our tickets for our next adventure (45 baht) and hopped on the next coach to Si Satchanalai. An hour or so long drive brought us to the front of a street-side shop where we were able to hire bicycles for the day (again for 30 baht). Here the man told us there would be returning buses at 14:00 and 16:00 later that day. As we approached the main entrance to the historic national park w...

Day 4: Our second day of cycling around the Sukhothai old kingdom temples, this time outside the walls of the historic national park. Once again, the spectacular ruins of chedis donning elephants, enormous Buddha statues and steep staircases stole the show. Even with the glaring heat of the sun and the dampening humidity, the beauty of the old structures (and the excitement of our bicycle adventures) could not be quashed. Before returning our bicycles, we stopp...

Day 3: An early morning flight from Bangkok to Sukhothai found us at a sweet little airport flanked by enclosures of Giraffe, Zebra and Emus. How unexpected! We arrived at our hotel before check-in, so we dropped our bags and set off for the Historic National Park. An open bus with wooden seats on the sides took us from the new city to the old city for 30 baht (just over $1 AUD) where we were waved down by some ladies hiring bicycles for 30 baht/day. We hopped o...

Day 2: Our goal - The Floating Markets! With great fortune we had ourselves some local tour guides; the sister and mother of my long time Thai friends, who now live in Sydney. The morning saw us head for the BTS sky train to Bang Wa. Despite somehow starting off in the wrong direction, we quickly got ourselves on the right train line. From there, our guides (Por and her mother) drove us the rest of the way to the Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Markets. First things...