Located 500 km north of Bangkok, Sukhothai was the first royal capital of the ancient Thai empire in the 13th century. Unesco -listed since 1991, it is home to some 200 ruins, including numerous ...

Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh.