Our next destination was Sukhothai which is between Bangkok and Chiang Mai.  We came to Sukhothai to visit the ruins of the first Thai kingdom that dates back to the 13th century.

When we landed in Sukhothai, it was really cool. Only Bangkok Aiways flies there and the airport is privately own by them. It is a beautiful, thai style, open air bulding. A little train brought us to the “terminal”. There was a little sign carved out of wood that said Bagage Claim. A pick up truck pulled up and handed us our bags. The building and surrounding gardens are very beautiful. We then took a minibus to our hotel. The drive was great. The sun was setting and we drove for over a half hour through rural Thailand. The houses and vehicles (some look that they were from Madmax as Bert says) were very cool. The houses are lifted on pillars for the raining season.

We then arrived at our hotel, the Ruen Thai Hotel, and immediately fell in love with it. The buildings and decorations are gorgeous, as was the room. It is a family run business and the whole family was so nice. The first night, Roger was exhausted (he hadn’t been feeling that great all day) and slept to try to get better. I went to ask a few questions about ruins and ended up hanging out with the family. The daughter showed me family pictures of them visting the ruins to illustrate the different places she was showing me on the map.

Thankfully, the next day, Roger was feeling considerably better. After a nice breakfast in the garden, we took the bus to the ruins where we rented a bike and biked around the ruins for about 5 hours. It was very nice, hard to describe, you will have to wait for the pictures .

That night, we hung out at our hotel.  We were a bit tired from biking around in +33.  Considering we spent the previous 9 days laying on a beach, biking for 5 hours took a bit out of us.    The next morning, we took a flight to Chiang Mai.

We were really happy that we came to Sukhothai.  Between the cute airport, the wonderful hotel and the amazing experience visting the ruins on bike, we were able to move on with some great memories.