The road trip ended with a bit of fanfare and a celebration that we returned unscathed thanks to some expert driving and maneuvering (Yay Chuck!). We spent our last day and night of the road trip in Lampang, where we stayed in a very old teak house that was divided into several units and was also on a river bank albeit a very shallow one! It was the night of the Lampang walking street, so there was lots of music, things to buy, things to look at and things to eat. The next day, it was back to Chiang Mai where we hung out for a few days, got massages, ate some great food, made a new friend and visited lots of wats! There are so many in Chiang Mai that you can easily spend a whole day doing a "wat walk". They're all beautiful and each one is different. I've included just a few as well as Buddha statues in many different poses.
After a flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok, one night in a hotel at the airport, a (very) early flight to Ranong, and a two hour boat ride on the funkiest ferry ever, we have arrived in Koh Phayam - an amazing island very near Myanmar with hornbills, but more about that later.
Along the way . . .
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| Lampang Walking Street |
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| View from Room in Lampang & Below is the Room |
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| Fisherman in Lampang in a Very Shallow River |
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| Turning the Car In in Chiang Mai - A Happy Ending! |
Chiang Mai - Wats, Stupas, Monks & Buddhas
Wowee! I want to go on Wat walk! That last Wat is my favorite, it's so classically pretty, and I love the little happy terracotta Buddhas! I hope you tried the squid skewers! More great pics, love all the shoes on the stairs. Keep em coming! The photos, not the shoes. Love you.
ReplyDeleteOBA, those pictures are really good. Digging them. Bet Buddha is up in Nirvana all jolly over his ongoing rock star status... And be careful, Rambo 4 was shot in Myanmar. I just don't want you to run into the ghost of Stallone with his creepy Botox apples.
ReplyDeleteNow, that IS a scary thought. Will definitely be on the lookout!
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