Si Satchanalai

Si Satchanalai and Chaliang Although inscribed on UNESCO’s Thailand world heritage list as far back as 1991, the ancient cities of Si Satchanalai and Chaliang remain firmly in the shadow of their better-known and more frequently visited neighbour Sukhothai. Indeed, neither of the extensive walled settlements even get a name check, merely falling into UNESCO’s category of ‘associated historic towns‘….

Si Satchanalai  . Thailand’s UNESCO entry Sukhothai shares a triple bill with the ruins of Kamphaeng Phet, to the west, and the ancient city of Si Satchanalai to the north under the combined (and imaginative) name of Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns. The former lies some 80 kilometres southwest of Sukhothai and the latter over 50 kilometres…