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    • twenty eight

      Posted at 10:12 am by jasminedesirees, on March 16, 2015

      Yesterday was my birthday, I spent a great weekend exploring the San Diego area, sleeping on the beach, and eating cupcakes. I was thinking back over the past year, and how amazing it’s been, so I wanted to take a little time to reminisce, and share some of my favourite experiences.

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      March 2014- On my birthday last year, we were on a trip to visit New York City for the first time, and it was everything I’d been dreaming of. It was kind of one of those spontaneous trips where you’re not sure if it’s really necessary, but you could do it, so we did, and I’m so, so glad. We also visited Niagara Falls, and got one of my friends married off in Toronto.

      April 2014- Last April, my sister came out to visit me in San Francisco for the first time, and we had the best weekend ever. We took a last minute road trip down to L.A. to spend a few days with my family. I don’t get to see them as often as I’d like, so driving down to meet up with them was kind of a no-brainer, even though we had to change a flight we already had booked, and rent a car in order to get there. We also went out to Phoenix for the weekend for the first time, not realizing then that we’d be moving out there in less than a year.

      May 2014- In May, we were well on our way to finalizing plans for our trip. We were spending as much time with family and friends as possible, and really enjoying our last few weeks of living in California, including a lovely day in Capitola.

      June 2014- In June, we spent a few days visiting my family in Montana, and then took off for Thailand, mid-month. I loved visiting Bangkok, the Floating Market and the White Temple.

      July 2014- In July, we moved down to the islands of Thailand, including Phi Phi and Railay, and then spent a couple of weeks in Cambodia, visiting Angkor. Ta Prohm was my favourite place in the world. We also spent a few days in Singapore, and visited the Cloud Forest, and the Supertrees.

      August 2014- In early August we finished up our last few days in Indonesia, including the most amazing time diving in Flores and trekking with Komodo dragons. Then we finally landed in Australia, hung out in Sydney for a few days, then started our road trip up to Cairns, and also, this happened.

      September 2014- In September we were still creeping around Australia. We visited Whitehaven, spent a few weeks working on a farm, and then a few more weeks hanging out in Byron Bay, and hiking to the lighthouse every day. This is still the most amazing graffiti I’ve ever seen.

      October 2014- In October, we made the decision that as much as we loved Australia, it was too expensive for us, so we headed back to Indonesia, to relax on the Gili’s, hike Batur, trek Rinjani, visit the beach of my dreams, and creep around in Kuta Lombok, and South Kuta.

      November 2014- In November we took a spontaneous trip to the Philippines (posts coming this week!) and eventually, made our way back to California.

      December 2014- In December, we spent as much time as we could with our friends and family in California, then packed up our stuff and moved to Phoenix.

      January 2015- In January, we spent a blissful week in Montana, made a quick trip up to Canada to experience the -40 weather and load up on ketchup chips, and then headed back to start life in Arizona.

      February 2015- In February, we finally got our furniture and got actually moved in to our new place, and then got to start exploring our new state with trips to Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, and the Grand Canyon.

      Posted in exploring, life, travel | 2 Comments | Tagged Australia, birthday, Cambodia, exploring, Indonesia, life, nyc, Phoenix, Singapore, Thailand, travel
    • tiger

      Posted at 7:14 am by jasminedesirees, on July 22, 2014

      I’ve put off writing this post for awhile, just because I’m still not really sure how I feel about it. One of the very popular things for tourists to do in Chiang Mai is visit the Tiger Kingdom, a place where you can see, take pictures of, and even interact with tigers.

      You can choose which group of tigers you’d like to see, they have baby ones, teenagers, and full grown adults, the price varies depending on which group you want to see.

      I’d had a few friends that did it, so I kind of new what to expect, and I already knew I didn’t want to interact with the big ones. Tigers are wild animals after all, and in order to have people in the cages with them, taking pictures and touching them, they drug them, to keep them sleepy and easy to handle. The whole idea of that just made me very sad.

      We opted to just see the baby ones, because they are too small to do any damage they aren’t drugged, and you get to go in and see them and play with them for about 15 minutes. It was a really neat experience, the babies are mostly running around playing with each other, and you try to get a picture if you can.

      I was sitting on the floor and one of them came and laid beside me, and he batted at my fingers and wrapped his paws around my leg. He chewed on me a little bit, but I like to think it was out of affection, and it didn’t hurt at all.

      After our time was up, we went and had a drink at the cafe on site, where you can watch people doing their interactions with the big tigers. The adult tigers were mostly just laying on the ground, or up on a pedestal sleeping, while groups of tourists laid on them, pretended to be biting them, or made growling faces beside them.

      It was kind of awful to watch, these big, powerful, beautiful animals spending hours out of the day drugged to sleep so that tourists could pay to lay on top of them.

      It seemed very disrespectful, and I remember thinking that if one of the tigers did wake up and bite someone, it would serve everybody right. Not that I wanted anybody to get hurt, but if you don’t want to get bit, maybe don’t lay on top of a sleeping tiger.

      So even though playing with the baby tigers was really neat, I still wouldn’t go back, and I kind of wish I hadn’t gone at all.
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      Posted in Thailand, travel | 2 Comments | Tagged chiang mai, Thailand, tiger, travel
    • koh samui

      Posted at 7:42 am by jasminedesirees, on July 21, 2014

      Not much to report from Koh Samui, we were staying on the East side of the island, on Chaweng beach, and we pretty much settled into our beach chairs and didn’t move for three days.

      Chaweng beach was so gorgeous, the ocean was crystal clear, and the beaches were white sand. We had amazing weather (it was so hot the polish was melting off my toenails) so we weren’t feeling very ambitious to do anything that didn’t involve the water.

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      We went stand up paddle boarding one day, which is one of my favourite things to do, they have hover crafts and jet skis that you can rent, and there is an inflatable obstacle course with trampolines, rock walls and sea-saws that is pretty fun whether you’re a kid or a grown up.

      Chaweng is the most popular beach on Koh Samui, so if you are coming here during the high season, December to February-ish, it would be pretty busy, and maybe somewhere you’d want to avoid. The whole island is beaches so you definitely have options, but because we were here in July, there were not many other people, and it was still really relaxing and peaceful.

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      There are lots of fun things to do on Koh Samui itself, there is some really great shopping and restaurants, they have an English language movie theater which we checked out on a rainy Sunday night. It was three dollars per ticket for us to go see a movie on opening weekend, I’ll probably never be able to go to a movie in America again, just on principle.

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      They also have tours to nearby islands, Koh Tao and Koh Pha Ngan, both of which are supposed to be totally gorgeous. We absolutely meant to go, I swear, but our beach chairs were just. so. comfy.

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      Koh Samui was probably the most expensive Thai island we visited but it was definitely one of my favorites. I’d visit again, anytime.

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      Posted in beach, Thailand, travel | 0 Comments | Tagged beach, island, koh samui, Thailand, travel
    • railay

      Posted at 7:16 am by jasminedesirees, on July 17, 2014

      We spent a few days in Krabi, near Ao Nang. It had a nice, long beach, lots of good restaurants, and shopping, and some fun bars, but unfortunately, it absolutely poured rain for most of the time we were there.

      We did get one nice day, and it completely made up for the others. We took a boat to Railay, about a 15 minute ride, and it was absolutely gorgeous there. The boats dropped us off on the west side of the island, but we were told to walk across the island to the other side, and then back across to a hidden beach on the southwest side, where there is a massive cave, and a lookout point.

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      muddy path to the lagoon

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      as close as I could get to the lagoon, you can just see the water mocking me for being a chicken

      It was not very hidden, as most of the people on the island find their way over the the cave beach eventually, but it’s definitely worth a visit. It isn’t huge though, so if you come on a day where it is really busy, come check it out, swim in the cave for awhile and then when you’re ready, go back to the main beach where you get dropped off, it is just as beautiful, and way less busy.

      The real story about our trip to Railay, is our struggle up to the viewpoint. I’d heard about it from a few people, and it’s mentioned in every description of Railay, so I figured it would be pretty easy to access, maybe up a set of stairs like the viewpoint in Phi Phi.

      It wasn’t.

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      the start of the climb up to the viewpoint

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      view from the top

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      The viewpoint is just off the path to the cave beach, and it is a really intense climb. It is very steep, up a jagged rock face, with just a few areas of plateau where you can rest. There is a rope running up to the very top, wrapped around various tree trunks, but it is the same rope all the way up, and if anyone else is climbing (and it’s about 20 minutes to the top) and grabs the rope, it throws you off balance.

      Ordinarily, it would be a bit treacherous, but likely doable for anybody in even semi-decent physical shape, but when we visited it had been raining for 4 days straight, so on top of being steep, it was also very slippery.

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      They actually rent mountain climbing equipment at little shops all over the island, which I obviously declined. Instead I wore flip flops and a backless Brandy Melville sundress, which was slightly annoying on the way up, but was actually a deathly nuisance on my way down, as it flared out whenever I moved so I couldn’t see where my feet were stepping.

      I ended up finishing the climb down in my underwear, with my dress tucked up into my bra. You’re welcome fellow climbers.

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      The view from the viewpoint alone is worth the climb, but there is also a lagoon in the mountain crater at the top, although it is another, more dangerous climb to get there, it’s supposed to be gorgeous.

      Unfortunately, the rain that had turned the viewpoint climb into a sloppy mess had turned the lagoon climb into a suicide mission. We passed group after group of people who had tried it, but ended up turning back.

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      Since I can never take anybody’s word for anything, we had to go too, and after slip sliding our way to the bottom of the first hill on hands and knees before we even reached the rocks to climb down, we realized that we weren’t going to make it.

      By the time we got to the bottom I was barefoot, and so muddy from head to toe that when we reached the cave beach, I just threw myself in, clothes and all. You can see my muddy little rat feet here, the rest of me was even worse.

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      Posted in beach, Thailand, travel | 6 Comments | Tagged beach, island, railay, Thailand, travel
    • koh lanta

      Posted at 3:36 am by jasminedesirees, on July 15, 2014

      The funny thing about Koh Lanta is that even though it was one of my favourite islands, it was so chill and relaxing that I took almost no photos the whole time we were there.

      It was super quiet, we maybe saw 10 other tourists the whole time were on the island, and our guest house was right on the ocean, so we had the whole place, and the pool to ourselves.

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      We rented a moped because tuk-tuks were 200TBH each way, and you could rent a moped for an entire day for that much. I was a bit nervous since they drive on the opposite side of the road than we do, and also drivers there tend to be a bit erratic, passing each other constantly, even when other drivers are coming, so there are quite a few near misses.

      On our first night, we set off on our moped, looking for a restaurant on the southwest side of the island where we planned to eat dinner. Over an hour of cruising later, we realized we had hit a dead end. It was starting to get dark outside, and we were clearly lost, so we turned around and headed back the way we came. When we finally found a map on the side of the road, we realized we’d taken a wrong turn, and had ended up on the complete opposite side of the island from the restaurant we were looking for.

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      Other than that little incident, it was pretty much smooth sailing. Quite a few of the restaurants on the island were closed because we were there during the low season, but the island was so gorgeous that we weren’t too upset.

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      We did visit the national park at the very southern tip of the island, which was crazy-gorgeous, with monkeys and monitor lizards running around everywhere, a lighthouse, and a nature hike that takes about two hours to complete.

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      One tip if you are going to visit Koh Lanta, we liked being there in the low season because it was cheaper, and it was nice to just relax after a few days of partying in Phi Phi, but the one downside was that some of the islands near Koh Lanta are designated as being part of the national marine park, and they aren’t open during the low season in order to give the reefs time to recuperate.

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      There are lots of diving, snorkeling and tour trips to the other islands advertised everywhere, but you can’t go during the low season, so keep that in mind when you’re planning your trip.

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      Posted in beach, Thailand, travel | 1 Comment | Tagged beach, koh lanta, monkeys, Thailand, travel
    • tips for traveling thailand

      Posted at 7:31 am by jasminedesirees, on July 14, 2014

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      There is tons of information about traveling in Thailand all over the internet, but here are just a few things that I learned along the way, that would have been really helpful to know beforehand.

      1. Bring Deep Woods mosquito repellent, with a high concentration of deet. We brought only one bottle for some reason, that was 100% feet, and it worked really well. I didn’t have a single mosquito bite for the first two weeks, but once it ran out, we had to buy stuff from here, and most of it is only 15% deet. Once we switched, I had 300% more mosquito bites. It is possible to find higher concentration, but it takes quite a bit of looking, and it’s more expensive.

      2. Change your money over to Baht. I read over and over again when we were getting ready to leave for Thailand that you don’t need to change your money and that American dollars are accepted everywhere there. That was not my experience at all, it was almost impossible to find anywhere that accepted American dollars, and if you were traveling to a remote part of Thailand, money exchanges are few and far between, so it’s best to change your money when you’re in Bangkok, or another larger city.

      3. Keep your ticket stubs. I saw this happen over and over and over again, to us, and to many other travelers. If you book something through a travel or tourist agency, or even your hotel, make sure you hold on to your ticket/receipt, even after you think you’ve turned it over to the right people.

      Often people will get picked up via mini-van, and transported to ferry/bus terminals to go to other parts of the country. The ticket has confirmation that you’ve paid for all legs of the journey, not just the mini-van, but often the mini-van driver will take your ticket when he picks you up, and then either lose it, or sometimes the drivers switch out mid-way through the trip, and he’ll take your ticket with him, and then you have no way to prove that you’ve already paid, even if you are traveling the whole way with the same travel company.

      Show the driver (or hostel, etc) your ticket, and then insist on holding on to it. I’ve met a lot of people who didn’t, and missed connections, spent hours fighting, or worst of all, had to re-pay.

      4. Bring all of your lotions from home. Lotions are readily available at every mini-mart on the street, but 98% of the ones sold there are whitening, to make/keep your skin whiter. You can usually find sunscreen that isn’t, but it’s definitely true for any face creams or lotions that you have. I ran out of moisturizer in our third week and ended up having a 20 minute Who’s-On-First type debacle with 3 different ladies at a store trying to figure out if one of their products was whitening or not.

      5. Beware of Sea Lice. This tip is going to be more relevant depending on what time of year you are visiting. We were there in June, during the peak time for sea lice, and it was a big problem for me. Sea lice are basically tiny jelly-fish larvae that float on the top of the water. I first encountered them as I was coming up from a dive in Phi Phi, everywhere my wet suit didn’t cover it felt like I was getting burned, it really hurt.

      I asked one of the guys on the dive boat, and he told me about sea lice. I did some more research when we got home that night, and sure enough, I woke up the next morning with a red itchy rash on my elbows, and down the fronts of my legs. Sea lice doesn’t affect everyone, many people can be in the water when they are present and not feel them, but some people are affected badly. I encountered them again in Krabi, only for a few minutes at the beach one day, and then again on our third day in Koh Samui, swimming in the same spot I’d been swimming at for the last three days.

      In Koh Samui they were so bad that I couldn’t stay in the water, but people all around me were swimming and having a blast, completely oblivious. I checked into it a bit, and you can buy repellent for them, I couldn’t find it in Thailand, so I’m not sure if it works for me, but if you are sensitive to sea lice, and will be there (or any other warm climate beach) during the summer months, it might be a good idea to order some and bring it with you, just in case.

      6. Bring anti-itch cream. See tip number one, and tip number five. Because I had a lot of mosquito bites, and also had a reaction from the sea lice, I was basically an itchy mess, and it was really hard to sleep some nights. Luckily I had packed a little first aid kit with basics, including Benadryl cream, and a Cortisone cream. It basically saved my life, I would highly recommend this.

      7. Pack light. Depending on the time of year you visit, it will be better or worse, but it is a tropical country, and generally, it is very hot here. Be sure to pack light, and bring light, airy fabrics. I didn’t bring that many clothes with me, but there are a couple of items I brought that I haven’t worn, (a few tshirts, a synthetic fabric sun dress, anything tight or constrictive) and it’s because it’s just too hot.

      Also, there are places that do your laundry for you on every corner, so don’t worry about running out of clothes. It usually cost us about 120B ($4) to get both mine and Derek’s clothes cleaned.

      Posted in Thailand, travel | 2 Comments | Tagged Thailand, tips, travel
    • viewpoint

      Posted at 6:01 pm by jasminedesirees, on July 11, 2014

      On our last day in Phi Phi, I finally mustered the energy to climb up and see the viewpoint. There are signs for it all over the island, but it was so. damn. hot. every day we were there that just getting up out of your lawn chair was a real physical effort.

      We found our way there, and started climbing, for some reason I didn’t think it would be that far to get to the top, probably because I was in denial.

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      It was all cement stairs, and there were a lot of them. I could see the top from the bottom, so I concentrated all of my leg muscle and determination into reaching that point, only to realize that that wasn’t the top at all, just a layover along the way. That happened to me about 4 times.

      When you finally drag yourself to the top, you have to pay 20TBH for each person (not a lot but still, it would be devastating to get up there and not have any money and have to turn around and go back down). There are two view points, the bottom one is pretty nice, but the top one, another 5 minute hike through the trees, is truly spectacular.

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      You can see the entire island, both bays, and it is breathtaking, absolutely worth the climb.

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      The climb really isn’t even that bad in hindsight, or should I say, once I’d clawed my way to the top of the Railay Viewpoint in Krabi (more on that later) where you are literally taking your life into your hands climbing up there, the stairs up to this viewpoint seemed quite lovely and relaxing by comparison. It’s all relative.

      Definitely make the effort to climb up and see this view if you’re ever in Phi Phi, you will absolutely not regret it.

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      Posted in beach, Thailand, travel | 2 Comments | Tagged beach, island, koh phi phi, phi phi, Thailand, travel, viewpoint
    • phi phi

      Posted at 6:02 am by jasminedesirees, on July 10, 2014

      This post is going to be part love letter, part rave, so be prepared.

      As soon as we decided we were going to be going to Thailand on our way to Australia, I started getting excited for Phi Phi. I’ve seen so many pictures of it, I had a friend visit the island a few months ago and she totally loved it, and let’s be honest, if it’s good enough for Leo, it’s good enough for me (in case you don’t know, the movie The Beach was shot here).

      So there we were a few months later, on the crowded ferry to Phi Phi. We rounded the corner of another little island and saw it for the first time. And it is beautiful. Like awe-inspiring, stop what you are doing, kind of forget to even take pictures beautiful.

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      The cliffs are massive and green, the beaches are snow white sand, and the water fades from turquoise to deep blue as you head out to sea.

      So here we are, all of these people on this ferry completely blown away by the beauty of this place, and as I’m sitting there gaping and trying to figure out how many of my worldly possessions I would need to sell to come live here permanently, out of the corner of my eye on the deck below where I am standing, I see a man pull out a packet of cigarettes, open it, take out a cigarette, and pull out a random piece of paper from the pack and THROW IT INTO THE OCEAN.

      I almost couldn’t believe it, because it was unbelievable. I took a deep breath, and tried to calm down and give him the benefit of the doubt because, accidents happen right? Then, just as my blood pressure started to sink back down to a regular level, his buddy came up to him, presumably asked for a cigarette, and the guy gave him one, pulled out the extra piece of paper (no idea what kind of cigarettes these were) and THREW IT IN THE OCEAN AGAIN.

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      The left side of the ferry was completely packed with people, so I couldn’t get to him, but if I have learned one thing from my sister over the years, it is the effectiveness of a vicious death stare. It took a few minutes for him to notice me staring at him, but as soon as he did I gave him a look that would have most certainly killed him if I possessed any magical powers whatsoever.

      He at least had the grace to look a bit embarrassed, and quickly made his way to a different part of the boat.

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      We made it to Phi Phi, it’s such a fun island, there are no cars so everyone walks and bikes everywhere, and you are never more than 100 yards from the beach. It has lots of great restaurants, and probably more bars than anything else on the island. At night every single beach bar becomes a dance club, and there are fire shows and lots of booze, and then even more booze, which leads to more fire.

      The first thing we did once we dropped off our stuff was hit the beach, we ordered some drinks, got a table, and then waded out into the water.

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      I didn’t make it three feet in before my foot hit a beer bottle. I picked it up, carried it back up the beach, and left it there, planning to grab it after my swim. I started back into the water, took two more steps and found a beer can, and then a large piece of broken beer bottle.

      Everybody knows that there is garbage in the ocean, that we need to do more to keep it clean, but seeing that just made me so, so angry. Phi Phi is probably one of the most gorgeous places on the planet, and people are just ruining it.

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      It might seem like I’m overreacting, but I had just come from Phuket (which I didn’t really care for) and had the same thing happen at two different beaches, I’d wade into the water, only to find a plastic bag wrapped around my leg.

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      Most of our time in Phi Phi was so much fun, and it really is gorgeous there, despite a few pieces of trash in the water, but it just seems like if we can’t even see the benefit in not completely destroying someplace that looks like this, there isn’t a lot of hope for anywhere else.

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      Posted in Thailand, travel | 11 Comments | Tagged beach, island, phi phi, Thailand, travel
    • planes, trains and automobiles

      Posted at 6:29 am by jasminedesirees, on July 8, 2014

      Tomorrow we leave for Cambodia, after more than a month of traveling through Thailand.

      Here are just a few of the many ways that we got around this gorgeous country.

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      beautiful ’70s bus interior

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      Posted in Thailand, travel | 2 Comments | Tagged boats, cars, planes, Thailand, trains, travel
    • sukhothai

      Posted at 7:13 am by jasminedesirees, on July 7, 2014

      My favourite way to travel is to have a few things in mind that you want to do, but also to keep things pretty open, so when you get to your destination, you can talk to locals and other travelers and figure out which places they think are must-see. Some of the coolest places I’ve visited have just been word of mouth referrals, of places I’d never even heard of before.

      So when we got to Thailand, I heard over and over that we should check out Ayutthaya or Sukhothai, they are both national parks with lots of cool temples, and that is where all of the Buddhas around Thailand are made. Ayutthaya also used to be the capital of Thailand, before Bangkok.

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      Sukhothai is the older one, some of the temples are more like ruins, and Ayutthaya is the newer one. I decided I’d rather see the more historical one, so we set out from Chiang Mai for a 5 hour bus ride to go check it out. I’d heard from several other travelers how hellish the bus ride was, but I really didn’t think it was that bad, although I did have a good book and a sleeve of Oreos to keep me company.

      Sukhothai itself is pretty quiet (although we were there during the low season) it’s not super touristy, and there isn’t a ton of other things to do except for check out the park, so two days there was a good amount of time.

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      We were told to come first thing in the morning, since the Buddhas all face East, and they photograph better with the sun shining on them. We rented bikes (around 100TBH for the day) and pedaled around the park for a few hours. The park itself was so beautiful and peaceful, and after so many days of walking (jungle trekking) it was actually really fun to just be on a bike.

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      The park itself is divided into 3 different sections, and you have to pay 100TBH (around $3) to get into each one. Once we’d gone around the park multiple times, we decided to go ride our bikes around town for a bit. We saw a sign for a waterfall and cave, so we set off pedaling down a deserted dirt road, with no idea where we were going.

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      About 20 minutes later, we saw another sign for the waterfall, but this one mentioned that it was actually 30 miles down the road. The sun was fully overheard, and it was starting to get really hot, plus there was an unfortunate incident with a spider (I almost veered into the ditch because it was the biggest spider that exists in the world. Derek insists it was a crab from the lake right beside the road, but he was not blessed with my eagle vision) so we decided to head back.

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      We went back to the park for sunset, even though it was a bit cloudy it was still pretty. I would definitely recommend going to Sukhothai if you have time on your trip, I would absolutely go back, especially in November when they have the Loi Krathong Lantern Festival.

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      Posted in Thailand, travel | 3 Comments | Tagged buddha, national park, sukhothai, Thailand, travel
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