Hello from Sukhothai, Thailand

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Today is Dec 12, 2005.

Christmas is just less than two weeks away ! Boy, time flies.

We left NongKhai on Dec 11 at 6 am. It took 3 buses and about 10 hours to reach Sukhothai. The buses were from NongKhai to Udon Thani (35B each, about 1 hour), from Udon Thani to Phitsanulok (202B each, about 6.5 hrs), from Phitsanulok to (New) Sukhothai (37B each, about 1 hour).

The roads in Thailand are very good. The roads we travelled were small routes, and they are comparable to secondary highways in Canada. Which is already way better than the major routes (not the super toll road) in China. Also the buses we rode on are very quiet and comfortable, the long distance buses ride like the GrayHound buses in Canada. Actually, the best buses are the double decker touring buses which I don't find anywhere except in Thailand.

We stayed at "Ban Thai Guesthouse", recommended by all guidebooks.

Old Sukhothai was the capital of Thailand for approximately 120 years in the 13th century. We get to see some ruins. There are many sites to visit in the Old City and the surrounding area. We paid a combo ticket of 150 Baht each to visit all the sites. We plan to rent a motorcycle (the dingy 125cc but with gears. 150 Baht/day, cheap) to tour around Sukhothai.

For more description, visit http://thailand.sawadee.com/sukhothai/

We will stay for few more days here until we visited all the sites we paid for 😊 then we will go north west along the Myanmar border to Pai, Chiang Mai, etc, etc.

And the Pad Thai ( Thai fried noodles) is fantastic here and cost only 15 Baht (40 cent US) a plate, MMM good. Gary had 2 plates for snack just an hour ago.

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