Beauty In The Breakdown

Place: Sukhotahi
Where: Northish East of Thailand
Why: Why not?
What: The first capitol of Thailand now turned into ruins.
How: 4 hour bus ride to Sukhothai, then bike riding from wat to wat.

If you don't like pictures, this is SO not the post for you. Just one of those things you can't explain, and the pictures don't even do it justice. But here we go anyway, if you'd prefer cricket eating, groin searching, massage mayhem, or fish sucking. Look elsewhere.


There are many Wats in the area. I wish I knew more about them, but of course. I don't.

If you take a picture with Buddha, your head has to be below his head. Don't ask me why we are stooping a bit, his head is OBVIOUSLY higher. I think we were just paranoid because this is the place of the most known Mormon Thailand story ever. Ya know, the missionaries who sat on the Buddha and are forever banned from Sukhothai. Yeah, that story.

We were just trying to show how massive these things are. They are huge!! We barely come up to the knee (if this thing had a knee...) and not even all the way!



I just really like this picture.


And this picture, the people are so cute there. Always fruit to sell!





The Monks actually came up to all of us girls and asked if they could take a picture with us. So one by one they got their picture ha. It was really funny. The only thing is you can't touch them! I'm glad we were informed of this little fact before we got to Thailand.. I thought I would be the one taking pictures of people....little did I know being a "white girl" would make ya cool.






This one is just a replica of the statue that was here, but now calls Bangkok home. Word on the street, this is the most famous one in Sukhothai because it gave the idea for the feminine look of many Buddhas.

And that is Sukhothai. It was a sweaty, hot day (what day isn't a sweaty hot day these days though...) but it was a great place to see. Not too touristy because it's pretty much in the middle of nowhere, and so so beautiful.

Hope all the pictures were even slightly entertaining. We were chased by a little cow if that spices things up a bit....no? Well, it was worth a shot.