{"id":68,"date":"2005-02-02T15:31:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T07:31:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:46:11","slug":"from_the_mountains_to_the_sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2005\/02\/02\/from_the_mountains_to_the_sea\/","title":{"rendered":"From the mountains to the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to continue on with my tour of Thailand by heading south from the mountains north of Chiang Mai (aka the foothills of the Himalayas).<\/p>\n

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Sukhothai Airport, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I found some pretty good deals on domestic airline tickets, so I’ve flown to Sukhothai for a few days and will continue flying down to Krabi (well south of Bangkok) for my final week in Thailand. Word’s out among travellers that many areas hit by the tsunami are recovering fast.<\/p>\n

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Sukhothai Temple ruins, former capital of the Sukhothai Kingdom (also known as the Kingdom of Siam), Sukhothai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sukhothai is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of Thailand’s former capitals and is rich in history. I will be visiting the old moated and walled historic sites in the next few days.<\/p>\n

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Sukhothai Markets, Sukhothai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sukhothai Markets, Sukhothai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sukhothai Markets, Sukhothai, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to continue on with my tour of Thailand by heading south from the mountains north of Chiang Mai (aka the foothills of the Himalayas). I found some pretty good deals on domestic airline tickets, so I’ve flown to Sukhothai for a few days and will continue flying down to Krabi (well south of… Continue reading From the mountains to the sea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sukhothai-province","category-thailand","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-16","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}