Wieng Lakor Hotel Lampang

... discover some interesting people, who in turn know more interesting people. Just let life be my guide as been a great lesson to not always being in control. This has been the purpose of the trip; letting go of whats not important. As a planner it is always easy to be in charge to make certain all things run properly.


I have become friends with Anna, a sweet young lady from Australia who is also traveling solo. She will become my roommate for ...

... they bring good bananas. Ahh well off we go and we find our gals....covered in dirt...and grinning I might add...nice thing is it didn't rain too much. They are pretty excited to see us....my gal kinda wants me to pat her trunk I think....she seems to like it.....so who am I to say no....we get a big chunk of the dirt off...and we err eley loads up the chains and stuff and then I barely managed to crawl up into the place my ass really does not like...and we all meet ...

... raise my legs... to sit on the ears.....my legs are dead to me...cept the pain..that was quite alive. Finally we get out of the jungle...and the flies do lighten up a bit yay. So we keep sauntering....knocking down trees....you laugh....no really....and not sure but every time we see an eley doo doo on the trail (very big can't miss em)....my eley would stop and put her trunk on it and sniff like it was crack cocaine or something....the animal kingdom is really full of ...

... are in thailand....oh my buddah it gets hot ya no sun screen nothing not even a hat...pant pant.....ohhh and about now we really start walking into the wet damp elephant grass where the flies seem to live to feed them the eleys and the flies....so the idea now is let the eleys graze on whatever they feel like eating we do this for a while and then we walk into the jungle farther and our mahouts kinda go into gear and we separate....we head down a big ...

... obicajno narejena iz lesa. Sedenja na lesenih klopeh ni ravno udobno, je pa poceni. Obicajno delujejo na turisticnih poteh in sicer vozijo potnike iz centrov mest na plaze, k znamenitostim, na zelezniske postaje ter podobno. Potniki sedijo v treh vrstah pravokotno na smer voznje na dolgih lesenih klopeh, ki obicajno niso niti pritrjene na vozilo. Vse skupaj zelo spominja na kaksno gasilsko veselico, le da se klopi gibljejo do 80km/h. 8. Mestni ter lokalni avtobusi se ...

... laid back atmosphere, no hassle from the sellers, good food stalls etc. The various wats along the way become like food courts with all sorts of food stalls set up there. We had some great food there, although in hindsight some of it must have been less than great as we were both a little ill in the next couple of days..... Long story short before we knew it it was almost midnight and we'd spent loads. We picked up some cool paintings, t-shirts and a few other things. The artists ...

... was completely unintelligible except that it started with a P, so Mahout it would be. Then I was ordered to climb up on my elephant. Just like that. Here's a giant beast, please climb on. Look Khong, unlike some of the other elephants, was trained to make her leg into two steps rather than just one, so first I climbed onto her ankle and then onto her knee. Then I somehow had to get from her knee to her neck. I never fully figured out how to do this ...

... put a couple sticks of sugar cane on her leathery tongue. Then I sat on her head as she wandered off and ate...for a long time. Then we did it again. This time I would try to say the commands in the hope that the elephant would understand. "Song soong," said the mahout and lightly kicked the elephant's leg. She lifted her leg. "Dong moon," I repeated and kicked the elephant's leg. She pretended I didn't exist. I kicked her leg again, a ...