Sakol Lampang

139 Phahol Yothin A. Muang Lampang, Thailand

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Lampang

A travel blog entry by lisa_and_paul

Lampang, our last stop in the north of Thailand, where Paul and I completed our second mahout training course at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre.

We took an early bus from Chiang Mai on Wednesday morning. It was a new kind of first class bus with small high windows that looked like a plane from outside and a prison van from outside. They dropped us off outside the centre and we walked up to the welcome centre and then got a lift to our ...

Information Society

A travel blog entry by desajuste

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... aguinha, essas coisas. Não era bem isso que estava esperando... Aí decidi esperar umas 2 horas até o tal do 'elephant bathing', que no final são uns 10 minutos olhando os mahouts conduzirem os elefantes até um lago, entrarem e sairem... Decidi que esse era o fim do programa. Fiquei mais de uma hora esperando o busão passar, num semi-ponto de ônibus abandonado. Tava sozinha lá e com um certo medo de não achar condução de volta, mas finalmente o dito cujo apareceu. Mais ...

Lampang

A travel blog entry by jeromeandclare

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... both contemporary in design and very unconventional, inside the temple, along with a buddah and all the usual temple stuff you would expect to see, there was some really random pictures, including The Twin Towers, Spiderman and Keanu Reeves!!?? I couldn't quite figure out what the message was or if it was supposed to be more of a temple or more of a piece of art? It turns out it's supposed to be conveying some kind of message about the evils of the modern world, i.e it ...

Une vraie journee de Backpackeuse!

A travel blog entry by alongtheway30

... qu'elle ne 'remarche' avec l'aide d'une prothese specialement concue pour son handicap (et son poids). Mosha, qui est beaucoup plus jeune, a gueri plus rapidement et marche egalement avec une prothese. Les elephants sont choyes et heureux. J'ai ete tres touchee par un jeune elephant que j'ai nourri aux bananes et dont le pied avant droit est en piteux etat (explosion egalement). Il est prouve que les elephants ont des sentiments profonds, assez proches de ...

More elephants

A travel blog entry by ldillard

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... elastic. I kept my distance after that. The baby elephants were awesome!

At the nearby hospital, we saw about 10 elephants being cared for with various problems. The elephants came from other places in the country where they were not being cared for properly by their owners as elephants used to be used in logging, but that was outlawed here in the early 90s so they don't really have a way to make use of them, except for a small portion of ...