วันศุกร์ที่ 7 มกราคม พ.ศ. 2554

Dawn at Sukhothai

The first ray of sunlight spreads to the eastern sky and reflects upon the water in the Yom River still shrouded in semi-darkness and glittering with silvery and golden colours. The dawn of a new day has com to waken the people near and far from their slumber to be ready to dfo their duties as best as they can.
For people living on the bank of the river in the province famous for being the fiist capital of Thai Kinkdom, their new day has come severral houes before the start of the first ray of the sunlight in the sky.
The short road meandering along the Yom River, starting from the walls of Wat Ratchathani to Praphon Bamrung Street, is crowded with people coming from many places with farm produce collected from their rice fields and gardens. They start their trip when it is still dark and dawn has not arrived. Those from faraway places settle down on old canvas beds covered with faded plastic sheets. They take a map while waiting for their regular buyers who come at the usual appointed time to purchase their goods for reselling. Tose living nearby com nearly at the fixed time. They unload their baskets and containers from trucks and keep themselves busy bundle and trundle them up in a hurried and frenzy way.
Sukhothai at this monent portrays the time when the dawn of life is approaching with the arrival of the new day a peaceful dawn that has been going on from time immemorial and the old lifestyle that has been maintained steadfastly.
The small province lies in the folds of Khao Luang Mouuntain with the Yom River flowing through, dividing its land into the eastern and western parts, starting from the edge bordering Phrace Province and winding north of Si Satchanalai District, passing Sawankhalok, Si Samrong, Muang, and kong Krailat Districts before dipping to the northwest of Phitsanulok Province. If the Yom River represents the main artery feeding the lives of Sukhothai people who for hundred years have made



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