Traveling east to Nong Khai!

We left Chiang Mai to travel to our new home for 3 weeks: Nong Khai. We took a bus from Chiang Mai but on the way we stopped in Sukhothai, the old city. Sukhothai was Thailand's first capital and lasted for about 100 years and then it became ruins.

After 3 hours of driving we stopped in Sukhothai. Oh man, it was great to be in a nice hotel again...air-con (air conditioning), an actual tub, & to all of our happines, a pool. That was the first thing everyone did after we threw our luggage down. It felt so good to be in clean water (chlorine!). Even our professors came in and jumped in with us. We all just hungout at the pool the whole night...it was fun.

The next day we explored Sukhothai -- the old city. We rented bikes and rode around and looked at all these old ruins. It was so cool -- I felt like it wasn't real! I traveled around w/ Nick & Dana...it's like us three are best friends haha (we do a lot of things together). After exploring a bit we went to new-town Sukhothai and had lunch there. Then we went back to our hotel and into the pool we went...

We then left the next day on a 5 hour bus ride to Nong Khai. We arrived at our new home -- the Mut Mee Guest house. The Mut Mee is located right on the Mekong River (as I am typing this I am outside looking at it!). In geography classes & history classes I've learned about the Mekong River, but I never thought I'd actually be by it one day. I'm probably going to go swimming & jet skiing in it tomorrow....

As much as I miss Chiang Mai, I am in love w/ Nong Khai. The only downside here is all of the mosquitos -- my legs have never been this swollen w/ bites before!

Sukhothai:




























Some Pictures of Nong Khai:











































(I know it's mostly just the sky --- but look how amazing it is here!!)