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In a small town on the northwest side of Lampang there's  a village called Thung Kwian. At the edge of this village you'll find the Elephant Conservation Center. Here we staid for 3 days to join a mahouttraining together with Mark and Peggy a Dutch couple we met in Laos and with whome we crossed the border to Thailand.  After a warm welcome we got our working outfit and we got introduced to our personal trainer. My trainer was called Lai. He introduced me to Pang Kod a huge fem...

We travelt through Thailand by bus, auto, plane and trian. We have planed everyting on our way. We travelt from the middel up to the north and back to the south. We have visit, Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, Ayuthaya, Chiangmai, Lampang, back to Bangkok, Krabi, Surathani, Koh Samui, Koh Phanang. We have lost our hart in Thailand all the kind people ther live. It was superb. I'ts hospitality is beyond borders. http://anjawilliam2.web-log.nl

How I work, learn, live, love, believe and go on in the beautiful world of the poor. This last journey that started in 2005 and is still in progress. thru China- SEA- EE-Balkans...

My AWESOME trip to Thailand!

A chronicle of living in Thailand. I'm currently based in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, but try to travel around the country as much as possible. Reviews of things to do, places to eat, places to go and different experiences.

Today we left Sukhotai, travelling by song thaew to the bus station, and then enjoying a rather cramped four hour bus ride to Lampang. At least the bus was airconditioned! After arriving in Lampang, we visited Wat Phra Lampang Luang, the largest wooden temple in Thailand. Not only was it a magnificent example of northern Thai / Burmese influenced Buddhist architecture, it was quite peaceful and free of tourists... a nice change from the madness of Bangkok's Wat Phra Kaew. Like Wat Phra Kaew...

Seriously guys. When I was a tiny girl, I had a Famous Five video in which the Five met a circus boy who was washing an elephant in an English stream. I forgot about it soon afterwards, but it all came flooding back in Lampang.Lampang is a tiny tiny place with a nice train station and a huge elephant conservation park. Since the Thai authorities banned logging in the 1970s, thousands of elephants are out of work. Some mahouts were taking their elephants into cities like Bangkok in order to ma...

My first trip to this beautiful region, surely not the last.

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