"More of Sukhothai" a Sukhothai Travel Page by JGB

Legend has it that a Thai king was once having trouble getting his army to do as he wanted and so he called a meeting at this temple of the important generasls. He also hid someone behind the Buddha (it is a very small room and a very large Buddha) and at the just the right time a loud voice, seemingly coming from the Buddha, encouraged the generals to be obedient to their king. Of course they complied.
Please forgive me if I have lost something in the translation from Thai to English.
This is as lovely a temple as I saw at Sukhothai. Actually it is an image house or Mondop. Its name is Wat Si Chum and it shouldn’t be missed.

Wat Si Sawai (15th century) is one of two Khmer style temples I saw in Sukhothai and I found it beautiful and intriguing. The buildings are a wihan or congregation hall and a prang or towers, based on the Indian prototypes.* This is a small walled compound and not to far from the central area of Wat Mahathat.

* (Sukhothai, Its History, Culture and Art, Betty Gosling, Oxford Univ. Press)

This is a lovely Buddha image in the late artistic period and quite different from the high classic style. The graceful and flowing image represents the height of Sukhothai’s artistic accomplishments.
Wat Mahathat.