9 Mituna Hotel Lampang
285 Bunyawat Rd. A. Muang Lampang, Thailand
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Floods,more temples ohhh and I'm going to be on TV
... well at least I tried too. A massive thunderstorm hit Lambang that night so it was literally impossible to get any sleep, it was pretty impressive watching it from my bedroom window though. The following day I got up nice and early once again to make the most of the day. I looked at the city map and decided to walk around instead of getting a moped or a bike. There was a lot of history in this small city so I marked ...
Bow bow please
... 4 other people there, and the substandard Thai band wailing horrendously into microphones and expecting us to love it, there was also the menu. Such a thing of beauty I never did see in my life. If Tennyson had written cryptic crossword clues, this would be the result. We spent a good half an hour poring over it deciding what to have, mostly because the descriptions made absolutely no sense. I shall give ...
Elephant Fun in Lampang
... and mahouts headed into the water and cooled off. The elephants obviously loved this and a few of them squirted water into the crowd. After exiting the water we followed the elephants to the performance area, who at this point were marching up the path in single file, holding the elephant in front's tail with their trunk. What followed was an amazing display of the intelligence and level of training the elephants had. From lifting logs and stacking them ...
Lampang
... its such a delicate way of eating or such a huge animal.
We then watch the animals bathing with their manhouts (elephant trainer) in the lake, each elephant has a manhout who cares for and trains them from a baby. We are told that the bond is so strong between an elephant and a manhout that if anything happened to the man, the elephant would give up and want to die too.
Then it was time for our elephant ride, we climb the steps on a huge wooden platform so we ...
Lamped Out Of It In Lamphang
... Lamphang is an area of Thailand where at the turn of the last century they brought in a lot of Burmese logging experts to help with the burgeoning Thai industry and their influence can be seen in the wats and the house styles. This one, Baan Nak Soi, is one of the better preserved and it was quite tastefully restored.
From there i pushed on to a major wat, Wat Phrae Kaew Don Tao which was nice and then walked back by the river and ...


