Tip Inn Lampang

... the rescued elephants at BLES are protected and respected, just being elephants. Be sure to read my Sukhothai blog from last year about BLES and help Katherine in her efforts to establish elephant clinics/hospitals to meet the needs of the many elephants who cannot travel to Lampang when in need of care.

And if you are near Lampang, (one hour from Chiang Mai) you will not regret a visit to TECC! David and I had a wonderful and beautiful day there!

... again....the weather is great a lil rain...and cloud....not bad at all. Off we go to find our Eley's....sure enough right were we left them. About here I find out why my eley is hobbled....turns out she is a great big "Gai"....thai for Chicken. Seems I find out in broken english that she freaks out at the weirdest stuff and runs for the hills....last time she ran...the mahout was on and he went for a huge tumble....nice ta know..as you don't realize how high up you are ...

... a tree......absofreakinlutly covered in dirt......can't blame her as I notice a plague of flies swarming right about the area I sit...yayyyyyyy for me. So in a cool way we unchain her and again she is hobbled so we unhobble her and she drags the chain out of the jungle and folds it up (it is really cool to watch her do it...I got some video) and we load her up with it....and I shout "Mai Long!!!" and she lays down and we try to beat the mud off her....no problem...she ...

... fat elephant and he will kick your ass...... Now my gal was plenty big... and I was not going to call her fat for obvious reasons. Pung Kwat was her name and my mahout was...lungajlajsdhfoyuhl....or something like that I will call him Bob from now on. She was about 4 or 5 tonnes....I not quite the same....my mahout was a short guy and about 1/3 my weight...he started babbling at the big gal and she did exactly what he wanted her to do....not sure if these ...

... prikolico z dodatnim kolesom in ima prostor za voznjo tudi do 7 oseb ali pa celo do 9 solarjev. Domacini je zelo veliko uporabljajo za vracanje domov po nakupih, ko se lahko pelje celotna druzina skupaj z vsemi stvarmi, ki so jih nakupili. 3. Samlaw je trikolesnik sestavljen iz kolesa, ki ima dva zadnja kolesa in ob vozniku, ki kolo poganja, se dva sedeza za potnike. Uporabljajo jih vecinoma turisti in jih je mogoce videti v vecini delov Tajske, le v Bangkoku ne. 4. Tuk ...

... Bar & Restaurant. We weren't let down and the place had a great atmosphere with live music (Thais singing English classics, quite surreal) and a great view of the river in the moonlight. The next day we got up early and set off for a nearby village called Ko Kha to visit a Lanna temple called Wat Phra Lamphun Luang. The wat was quite beautiful and ...

Travis found this place on someone else's travellogue and thought it would be cool. We walked across the highway from where the bus dropped us off at sometime after 8:30 (so we were, naturally, running late) and entered the Thai Elephant Conservation Center. The actual base was more than 2 km from the highway, though, and we were afraid we'd have to hump our gear all the way in, but one of the center's trucks arrived and we climbed on. At first we were ...

We had successfully taken a public bus crammed with people. We had arrived at the Elephant Conservation Center off the highway between Chiang Mai and Lampang. We had successfully checked in (they hadn't said "Who are you?"). Now, we were going to go meet our elephants. That is, as soon as I figured out how to put on my pants. They were hopelessly wide, had drawstrings in the front (or was that back?), and seemed to require some kind of ...

... heard from him. I'd like to think he's happy. If Zac can be happy, I can be happy. Zac and I have the same personality. More specifically, we have the same sense of humor. The travesty of meeting yourself face to face is that you have to compete with the other you to be more you than they are. It is exausting. It is also strangely unfullfilling. The analogy is to talk to a mirror. I'm not going to use it because it's cliche, and people who ...