The City Ruins of Old Sukholthai
Sunday the 12th
Lotus Village had breakfast on them, so we started the day off with homemade jam on toast with waffles topped in local fruit and honey. It was great. The coffee was passable too although last night when the coffee shop ground the beans in front of us, we smiled knowing it was going to be tasty! From Lotus Village we walked to town, a little wary of children with squirt guns, and waited at the bus stop to ride to Old Sukholtai. The water festivities hadn't started yet, although the main street was lined with pavilions, where locals decorated them in a topical plan facade. We took the local wooden bus to the old city, who was celebrating the holiday and river water was being pumped through sprinklers to rain down on passing pedestrians and cars alike over the main bridge. One french girl riding on our bus squealed, but me and Collin were prepared and only carrying items we didn't mind getting soaked. The National Park seemed to be off limits from water shenanigans though and we went the rest of the day unmolested. We rented bikes and road many miles through this extensive ruined city.
The main park had a lot of visitors and it was impossible to get a picture without people milling around in the background. The landmarks were interesting,
but some small and others similar to what we've already seen. It was
a hot day and we indulged on some homemade ice cream pops. We biked
to the Western territory, which became less manicured and more a dry
back roads to the foot of a mountain that did have more monuments.
I
was exhausted physically and struggled to climb the steep rocks that
lead up to more ruins or views. I was very thankful for the guy
selling cold bottled water at the foot of a climb to see the same
tall Buddha and mountain view the Kings of this time would pilgrimage
to on elephants back in its heyday.
We also stacked our own cairn stone piles at a different shrine.
On our way out of the Western territory, we did manage across a local festival that had stalls of food venders. We munched on the local BarBQ foods and had some mini crepes filled with shellfish. We both were pretty tired and the last wooden bus returned home at 5, so we headed back without exploring the town too much, but very satisfied. Back in New Sukholthai, the preparations were still being made, so we took a nap until pretty late in the night and made dinner at 7/11.
Collin also picked up a
bunch of Thai fruit and mastered the Dragon Fruit as well as a Rambutan, a fuzzy
small one that looked like a sea urchin and tasted similar to Lychee.
Lotus Village had breakfast on them, so we started the day off with homemade jam on toast with waffles topped in local fruit and honey. It was great. The coffee was passable too although last night when the coffee shop ground the beans in front of us, we smiled knowing it was going to be tasty! From Lotus Village we walked to town, a little wary of children with squirt guns, and waited at the bus stop to ride to Old Sukholtai. The water festivities hadn't started yet, although the main street was lined with pavilions, where locals decorated them in a topical plan facade. We took the local wooden bus to the old city, who was celebrating the holiday and river water was being pumped through sprinklers to rain down on passing pedestrians and cars alike over the main bridge. One french girl riding on our bus squealed, but me and Collin were prepared and only carrying items we didn't mind getting soaked. The National Park seemed to be off limits from water shenanigans though and we went the rest of the day unmolested. We rented bikes and road many miles through this extensive ruined city.
On our way out of the Western territory, we did manage across a local festival that had stalls of food venders. We munched on the local BarBQ foods and had some mini crepes filled with shellfish. We both were pretty tired and the last wooden bus returned home at 5, so we headed back without exploring the town too much, but very satisfied. Back in New Sukholthai, the preparations were still being made, so we took a nap until pretty late in the night and made dinner at 7/11.
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