TipChang Hotel Lampang

... opportunities to share with those back home. The village is quite small, a few restaurants, many vendors selling the crafts indigenous to this tribe and a waterfall. Being in the mountain region was a great escape from the city below and all of its heat.


Following the visit at the village, we traveled to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. Its is the north's most sacred temple. We chose the 306 steps that lead to the Wat (temple). Inside the Wat is an ...

... they like that....each one grabs a stalk and uses it as a fan to swat flies...they do a good job.....better than me. The camp has this really cool elephant built out of straw....really cool....its almost life size too with tusks....so we parked my eley right in front of the straw eley....now john is an animal lover has like 10 dogs and 10 cats....grew up with his eley...they have a huge bond loves eleys....so he goes over to the straw eley...and starts to kinda shake ...

... I am pretty sure if my eley couldn't knock down a tree to get a banana...she would climb it. So off to the jungle...beat the flies etc...and we find a nice spot for her and set her up and I swear to buddah....soon as I got off.....she started throwing dirt on again.....crapman another bath is in order....funny thing is that she grinned at me as she did it....hmmmm me thinks eleys are smart. Ohhh it was really funny cause at some point Jill's eley didn't wait for her to get ...

... and beat the snot out of the air whilst delicately balancing on the head/neck of our respective elephants...to try to kill as many of the flies as you can before you go down. Very calm sitting on an eley walking thru the jungle...whilst they reach over and knock a tree down to grab the top leafs....without breaking stride that is...they are serious eating machines....can make short work out of a tree in no time....my gal was smart I would have ...

... elephants was on hand for our one day course yesterday. I feel very lucky that we had the chance to participate in the ceremony to bless and show respect for the elephants, and to learn about the elephants and the program at TECC from Prahsop! Most of you know that I returned to TECC to bring Ellen to the elephants and to the program I so loved, 2 years ago. I became part of the TECC Mahout family in December ...

... seboj dejansko ne locijo po nicemer, saj enaki avtobusi krozijo po Bangkoku kot na avtocestah med posameznimi mesti. Ti avtobusi so obicajno precej zdelani, nimajo klime in se potniki na njih hladijo z odprtimi okni. Cene se gibljejo okoli 1 baht za kilometer, kar pomeni za 100km dolgo voznjo priblizno 2 evra. V eni vrsti je obicajno 5 sedezev primernih za ljudi do 35 kilogramov, prostora za kolena pa je vsekakor vec kot na pretek, ce si 6 let star otrok. Za vse z ...

... bought the paintings form gave us their cards and later in the week we visited them at their shops and bought a few more....our intention had been to pick up just one that we licked but we ended up with 5 or 6! Very nice though and not at all extortionate like at home. Just try buying from one of those artists on Merrion Square at the weekends and you'll know what I mean. SO back to those illnesses I mentioned-Monday morning I had a dose of the old trots which persisted for over 24 ...

... much ado, even though I watched everyone else's techniques as the days passed. This time I think I managed to swing one arm over her neck, tugged her ear with my other hand, threw up a leg, and scrabbled the rest of the way. Most of the time my arrival on Look Khong from this direction resulted in me laying flat on my stomach on top of her with my arms and legs flailing for balance as the well-trained elephant began to move the minute I was supposedly ...

... harder. The leg remained immobile. It was going to be a long day. It went on like this for quite a while. I would say gibberish, the elephant would ignore me, and then the mahout would do it the right way. The only noticeable break in the routine was when my pants fell off. My mahout had to pause to show me the proper way to put on my pants. I could imagine what he was thinking. By the third time around I wasn't any better at ...

... cliches should not be trusted as far as you can throw them. I can throw people quite far, but I'm talking about myself so I'm not sure where to go with the logic. Technically, one can throw oneself much further than one can throw another. I can throw myself out of a plane, or off a bridge, or at a woman, or into a painfully nonsensical tangent, but even the smallest people stop at say, ten feet give or take. To be honest, why would you ...