ALEX CAMPBELL travelled to Bangkok and
Sukhothai with the Tourism Authority of
Thailand and Bangkok Airways.THAILAND
BangkokSukhothaiWHEN
The best time to go is in
the dry season between
November and February
WHERE
Stopping off in Bangkok?
Take a tour of Nang Loeng
neighbourhood with HiveSters:
http://www.hivesters.com
HOW
Bangkok Airways flies to Sukhothai
three times a day from Suvarnabhumi
Airport. (www.bangkokair.com)- Singapore to Bangkok
Flight time: 2 hours 25 minutes - Manila to Bangkok
Flight time: 3 hours 20 minutes - Beijing to Bangkok
Flight time: 4 hours 30 minutes - Tokyo to Bangkok
Flight time: 6 hours 30 minutes
EXPERIENCE
SUKHOTHAIThe combination of centuries-old history,
warm hospitality, and community-
supported initiatives has put Sukhothai
on the traveller’s map
Sukhothai’s most famous export –
which visitors can design themselves;
a steady hand is required.
Often as not, when the time comes
to leave, there’s an air of anticlimactic
despondency at the prospect of seeing
out the last couple of hours of a place
stuck in an overly air-conditioned
airport with an overpriced drink. But
Sukothai Airport – privately owned by
Bangkok Airways – has been shrewdly
intuitive in establishing its Organic
Agricultural Project a mere five minutes
from the runway. Putting community
work into practice, you can don a set of
farmer’s kit in a royal shade of purple,
hop aboard the rural vehicle of choice –
an ee đăan – and gather duck eggs,
plant rice seedlings, and cap it off with
a fantastic meal sourced directly from
the garden in the Krua Sukho organic
restaurant (the collected duck eggs
make their way in there, too).
The combination of centuries-
old history, warm hospitality, and
community-supported initiatives has
put Sukhothai on the traveller’s map –
but the drop pin is still just far enough
off the beaten banana pancake trail
to allow its quiet, bucolic character to
remain authentic, and unspoiled. ag