November 18 Tuesday Drive Ayutthaya to Sukhothai, Ramkhamhaeng Museum, Historical park

STAY: 100sqm 2 bed apartment Sukhothai City.

Drive Ayutthaya to Sukhothai

We reached Sukhothai by 1 PM

Ramkhamhaeng National Museum

Opening hours: Daily 9.00 a.m.-4.00 p.m. As it closes early we visited it 1st

Admission: 150 baht

The museum exhibits artifacts and antiques found during a series of excavations in Sukhothai Historical Park and Sri Satchanalai Historical Park in 1960s. Highlights of the museum are the Sukhothai-style Buddha images, regarded the most beautiful Buddhist image-style in the Thai history. Also, the exhibitions also display Chinese porcelain and precious artifacts that show to prosperity of Sukhothai during its heydays.

Sukhothai Historical Park

The Sukhothai Historical Park ruins are one of Thailand’s most impressive World Heritage sites. The park includes the remains of 21 historical sites and four large ponds within the old walls, with an additional 70 sites within a 5km radius.

Sukhothai, literally 'dawn of happiness', was the capital of the Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries. comprises the ruins of royal palaces, Buddhist temples, the city gates, walls, moats and the water dyke control system of ancient Sukhothai

The admission fees of Sukhothai Historical Park are categorized by 3 areas with the same rate as

follows: Inner historic zone: 200 THB or 400 for flat rate, northern external historic zone (Wat Si Chum

and Wat Phra Phai Luang) 120 THB or 400 for flat rate, western external historic zone (Aranyik area) 120 THB or 400 for flat rate [only ruins outside city wall, forest area]

Tickets can be purchased on-site at the entrance and are valid for the whole day with multiple entries

since 2022,only three sections: north, central, and west.

Each area has its own ticket booths, and you can only purchase a ticket for the area you are in. .

You can purchase additional amenities like a bike entry fee, hop-on-hop-off buses, electric cars, and

tricycles. The north end has a car entrance fee too

30 THB for a tricycle

06.30 am – 07.30 pm on Monday – Friday and Sunday

7.30 am – 05.30 pm for Wat Si Chum and Wat Phra Phai Luang

We had seen the ighlights of the central zone. We returned our cycles and drove to Traphong Thong, when we were about to turn for our last sight a motorbike rider came very fast and hit our car on the left side taking down the Mirror . He was on the ground till ambulance came and son was stroking him while I prayed fervently. Thankfully he was not hurt. The cops were very kind. All the formalities took a couple of hours

STAY: 100sqm 2 bed apartment Sukhothai City. The kind owner fixed the rear view left mirror with super glue and taped it. But our car rental insisted on sending a new car for the rest of our trip

SUKHOTHAI 100sqm 2 bed apartment above AJ Grill restaurant Sukhothai City.

Beautiful 2 bedroom apt, very nice owner

The kind owner fixed the rear view left mirror of our car with super glue and taped it. We were able to drive to Teak temple and back while our replacement car was driven from Bangkok to Sukhothai by our car rental. We could have driven in the same car to Chiang Mai where they could replace the car but they insisted the mirror should not fall off

[again our heartfelt gratitude to the cops and to God]