Sukothai.....The Historical City

After surviving the down pour in Chiangmai I've headed down south 5 hours, by the suicide bus, to Sukhothai. (The bus drivers here make our bus drivers at home look like they driving a Hurst)

Sokhothai is a beautiful city that houses some of Thailand's oldest Wat's..I am staying just across the road from the Historical world heritage park that has some of the most dramatic sights i have seen. Some of the Buddha images are over 40ft tall and are as old as the 1300's , if not older.
Today, I decided to do the sights in a nice relaxed way and hired myself a bicycle..you should have seen it...it had a seat on the back with foot pedals for easy dinking of a pillion passenger and the seat was as big as a dinner plate. I hooked up with two French Canadian girls and we rode all day. It's so peaceful and serene, in the ruins of the Wat's, i could have sat at a few for hours but there were so many to see in one day.
So, may I let you know that my butt is so sore i feel like I've ridden a donkey for a week.. not to mention my knee's...you see I had a bike change half way because my first ones seat was so low i practically had my knees up near my ears!! And constantly I had people jumping on the back for a dink to the next Wat...mind you they were always wee little Thai boys who weigh next to nothing!! but I'm sure that didn't help.
Last night for the end of the Songkran festival they had a night market and a festival in the Historical park which was great because i actually got to see my first Mauy Thai Boxing championship battle and it wasn't all gussied up for the tourists, it was they real deal!!
It was spectacular. I sat on the back of a truck with some local men and cheered and jeered from the sides. There were little tykes from around 8 fighting right up to adults....and even women!! I was impressed. The chicks fight harder than the men!! I even saw a knockout which is rare for Thai boxing.
A contrast to the landscape it was set in!!!
Anyway tomorrow I'm off to Ayuttaya...Another historical city....If I can get someone who bothers to speak english to tell me about the bus.....There lays the problem :) oh well maybe I'm going to die here!!