Pin Hotel Lampang
8 Suandok Road Lampang, 52100, Thailand
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Lampang
Lampang is a nice little town, not really touristy at all. On the corner of the street from our hotel there was a great, really busy, little restaurant where we had the hottest curry of the trip so far. Whilst walking around the town we also managed to get caught in another now familiar afternoon downpour, which is more fun than it sounds. About …
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Week 2 - Lampang - Day 12 and 13
... style guest house and snagged a great room facing the river. Grabbed lunch and then found a little shop that made the local delicacy, basically rice crispy cakes. Is rice crispies made with actual rice? Had a walk around and got back at 5pm-ish, last thing we knew it was 11pm and the rest of the day was lost on an afternoon nap. Day 13 - 10/08/11 - Lampang Had breakfast which included, surprise surprise .... rice! It ended embarrassingly as I had rice stuck in ...
Lampang
... last day, Friday, it was Paul's birthday, and I think it was a good one. Not many people can spend their birthday walking through misty forest to meet a hungry elephant and riding her back to bathe and train.
Friday was also the end, sadly, and after we had received our course completion certificates, and said goodbye to mahouts and elephants about 15 times, it was time to go. Paul, Deborah and I went to catch a bus to Lampang on the main road. ...
Elephant Fun in Lampang
Lampang
So 8 out of 10 times on this trip I have been pretty good at reading maps and finding my way from A to B. There are a few exceptions. Varanasi is a good example of me getting lost at every turn but that place is just one giant maze. Technically however, Lampang is not too hard to navigate. But for some reason I not only mis-judged the distance between point A and point B but I also had a really hard time finding point B. We ended up wandering ...
More elephants
... looping human traffic. We must have walked a mile or two and had a great time talking and looking at all the other people (we were the only whities in the bunch). The cool air and setting sun made for a great evening. We finished it off with mediocre food by the river, though.
The next day we wanted to visit the Thailand Elephant Conservation Center and could've gone there with an organized tour (500 baht plus entry fee) but ...


