Well after a big relaxing trip to Pai we felt it was time to do some exploring! We didnt have much of a plan other than the names of the towns we wanted to visit, Sukhothai and Lampang.
The journey from Pai was interesting, we set off from our guesthouse thinking breakfast and a go get a bus... well it turned out this was the only bus station we went to on this outing that made us wait, a full 5 hours! But I guess thats our own fault for not booking our tickets the day before when we were going too!
Before our trip to Sukhothai, we had a three hour journey from Pai to Chiang Mai. Getting to Chaing Mai late meant we didn't have much energy for another journey so we had a sleeping stop over. The next day we woke up a bit later than expected and went to the bus station fairly fast as we heard we might be able catch the next bus, it turns out we got there with like 20 mins to spare and thankfully had time to grab some snacks, though not very healthy, but they hit the spot. The bus took about 5-6 hours to reach its destination.
Sukhothai was a lovely place. We went to the evening market and it was by far my most favorite evening market. It had just the right amount of people, not to many westerners and all the food was amazing!!! After reading up on travel guides and TripAdvisor, we thought we might be cutting time short to get round old Sukhothai and make it too Lampang in the same day. So we decided to get up early enough to see as much as possible.
We got too old Sukhothai for about 9ish and were on a rented bicycle by half past and too our suprise it wasnt that big. We took our time going around the park and it took us about an hour to see everything! It may have taken all day on foot but on our bicycles we had time to stop often and there was enough time to have an occasional race (Winner-The Big G).
After a nice wet lunch and a continuous 4 hours of rain we made it too Lampang. We weren't sure where to put ourselves here. We had looked into lampang even less than Sukhothai so from the station, we found a place to stay not to far out of the centre. It was the most expensive night we'd had at a hefty price of £10!!!! It felt like luxury and even had a fridge/ freeze as well as mini balcony (we didnt use either but it felt good to know we had them).
Once we decided to wonder for more excitement, we found we were around the corner from one of the best restaurants in lampang and the evening market, it was time to EAT!!! We had a few bits in the market and answered some questions for some high school children, but when we went too 'restaurent name' after it was soo nice we had a veg soup, deep fried prawns and the star of the show, fresh steamed fish, it was amazing!
We loved our time in the smaller cities we seemed to just eat our way through them! We are ok with that though as it was some of the best food we have eaten. My new star dish goes too my attempt at ordering fried rice and veg... We ended up with duck and noodle soup, it did taste wonderful though.
The next stop? Ummm Chiang Mai again we guess but lets seen what we doing!
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