Kim Hotel Lampang

... did NOT put me at ease - was this going to be the Thai Elephant version of Disney World? It certainly had the potential...<br>Thankfully not - the rest was more grounded and authentic. And yes, there was this lucky opportunity to ride a elephant through the Thai jungle!<br>I was perched on a seat with one other person from our tour. It felt like I was two stories up, as the elephant knowingly trudged down through lakes and through ...

... and grabbed a bunch of bananas from one of the shrines...but its okay as she is royal and all....time to go....last ride....we get on...ouch.......and walk thru the jungle back to our resort.....nice and peaceful....hard to describe actually...then we are done...we get off painfully I might add...get some certs saying we are now officially amateur mahouts....take some pics...and say goodbye to our eley's and mahouts. If you ever get a chance get close to an eley ...

... and his girlfriend...(one of many)...show up with fresh fixins for supper and they commence to get everybody chopping mushrooms and veggies etc.....cept me....dang it's on a holidy....no chopping for me. Turns out they are missing some kinda ingredient...don't even try to get me to repeat what it is.....so Supat want to go to town to get some stuff and he hollers at me to get up and lets go....alright...I crawl onto his scooter and off we go. This is where I wish I had ...

... hahh hahah ha stop eley stop.....ya no...eleys going for a bath....so they go right in with us on top....and sit down and start to lay on there sides etc etc...we are the scrub brush...on top scrubbing away furiously....gotta have a clean eley.....and on command they dunk there whole head under water...uhhhmmmm did I mention this is where we are sitting...so we are taking a bath too.....unfortunately this is about where the eleys like to relieve ...

... stall and went into the temple. The buildings are all made of wood and, although they were painted some 200 years ago, many of the murals are still partially visible. Behind the chedi, there is a little house set up which only men are allowed to enter. In this is a camera obscura image of the chedi. Tony went in and was quite impressed with what he saw. Naturally, I ...

... tudi na vlakih vse polno razlicnih prodajalcev, tako da je ogromno moznosti okusanja tradicionalne hrane in ogledov izdelkov tradicionalnih obrti. Na vlakih 3. razreda je obicajno neopisljiva gneca in sama sva ze nekajkrat odlocila, da sva kljub kupljeni karti, v zadnjem trenutku sklenila zapustiti vlak in se odpraviti na kaksno bliznjo avtobusno postajo. Neprijetnosti pri visjih razredih pa je njihova uporaba klimatske naprave, saj je povprecna temperatura na ...

... Ridiculous but at least the mouth cleared up very quickly. It's taken almost 2 weeks for the foot to be back to normal but at least now all is well again. After the action packed first few days in the city we took advantage of the enforced rest and chilled out until it was time to leave, the only other thing being a Thai Boxing show at Kawila Stadium which whiole okay was way below the standard at Lumpini in Bangkok. Unfortunately when we looked into leaving for Bangkok it seemed ...

... her around and showed me all the tricks she could do. She clanged a bell with her trunk, raised and lowered a flag, played a xylophone (although not with any great skill), turned on a water tap, and ate. She ate a lot. That first morning we also did a couple loops of the show ground so I could get accustomed to sitting on my elephant. Before long I was no longer gripping her with both my hands and feet, and by the end of the day I could just sit back ...

... the procedure again, but this time with an audience. I needed a little help. Okay, I needed a lot of help. But I got through it, and was dropped off with the group to watch the rest of the show. Towards the end, we remounted the elephant and gathered up for the end of the show. The elephants all bow and then the show is over. This is the signal for all the elephants to rush towards the audience to beg for corn and bananas from the ...

... with the place, it is what you can not do: Absolutely anything. Hammock, read, eat, talk, listen, get thai massage, sleep. Chiang Mai filters good people. You are never alone unless you choose to be. I'm in the habit of gazing into space. I don't start it intentionaly, and I suppose that is what makes it a habit, but it consumes a lot of time. Some would say I have a problem. People do stange things. I have a lot of time. I like strange people.