Sukhothai, Krabi, Koh Lanta

Ok so it has been a while since we posted anything. Here is a quick summary. We left Chiang Mai by bus to Sukhothai successfully but were a bit sad to be leaving the secret garden.

We spent three nights in Sukhothai celebrating Loy Krathong in the old city ruins and exploring around the ruins by bike. It was a nice big festival with light shows, fireworks, festivities. Many of the photos below are from the ruins there. One of my favorite parts was just biking around through the ruins. While in Sukhothai I also managed to get a hair cut and found a woman who shaved my beard off with a razor. Kind of scary but it worked. Not a lot of beards floating around in Thailand.

After Sukhothai we left on an over night bus to Bankok and spent most of the day in the airport waiting to catch a flight to Krabi. Once there we got to our next hotel at Ao Nang Beach where we spent three nights. It is kind of a heavy tourist beach strip so it was ok in my opinion. We did some shopping, swimming, and went on a tour of several islands by long tail boat. The landscapes and beaches here are beautiful. The weather is a bit hotter in southern Thailand so we are doing a lot more swimming now.

After Krabi we took a van to Koh Lanta where we are staying for about a week. We are in a bungalow on a very nice beach and it certainly is beautiful here. The sunsets are great!!! This is our very relaxing part of the trip. Unfortunately Gina is having a bit if a reaction to the malaria medication we have been taking, but it looks like things are getting better now. Basically a rash with some crazy itching.

Anyway this was just supposed to be a quick post summarizing the past week or so. Here are some photos, mostly from the ruins in Sukhothai because we haven't been to diligent about taking photos with the phones recently.