Sukhothai

From Bangkok we went to Sukhothai by train (and last bit by taxi). A journey that took more or less the entire day. The train ride was the most pleasant one we’ve hade as for comfort, but the most boring one for scenery. Maybe we have become a bit blasé after all the fantastic landscapes we’ve travelled through, and green rice fields and small villages doesn’t impress as much anymore.

However this train won on comfort and service. A pretty smooth ride, not much rocking and bouncing, pretty ok seats, but best of all we got served a warm meal that was kind of good, and later coffee/tea with cookies.

All one could miss was the drink trolley!

As Sukhothai is an old capital city from the 11th century when this part of then Siam, now Thailand belonged to the Khmer empire.

Old Sukhothai has many ruins from that time and we spent a day on bicycles visiting some of them. 

We also biked around the countryside through small cute villages and fields.

In the afternoon we needed to rest our behinds from the saddles a bit and stopped at a small shop in one of the villages. The shop owner did everything he could to accommodate this two strange ladies on bikes.

We got to sit on his bench were he was seated as we arrived watching badminton on tv. He even run to his house behind the shop to fetch glasses for our beer. What a sweet man. 

In total we estimated our ride to 40km. A lovely day that came to an end with a sore bum, a lovely meal and a rock hard most uncomfortable bed. Not to talk about the pillow.