Lampang and Sukothai

Well, I've left Chiang Mai and I'm now in Nong Kai. The trip from Chiang Mai to Nong Kai consisted of a long bus ride. I stopped at three areas; an elephant reserve, one of the oldest wooden Wats (Temples) in Lampang, and Sukothai runins.

Elephant Reserve was a waste of time. We only stopped for 2 hours and I didn't really want to do anything because it was extremely hot.

Lampang was once again extremely hot. An example of this is when I had to take off my flip flops to enter portions of the wat. But since the wat was outside my feet were going to burn off on the tiled floors, so i wore my flip flops and walked around all the sand. The wat itself was really cool because it was after new years so there were a lot of offerings the thai people left at the temple, such as wooden sticks to give offerings to trees and ribbon and sand for the monks.





I experienced my first hardcore thunderstorm the night before Sukothai. I went to sleep early so I could wake up early to visit the ruins of Sukothai, but I woke up at 1am due to thunder and lightening. I opened the door to my hotel room in Sukothai and the trees were swaying, there was purple light due to the lightning, and the on and off showers of rain. The storm lasted a good couple 3 hours.

I guess the thunderstorm was good because the morning after it was actually kinda chilly. Which meant I wasn't going to die in the heat while observing the Sukothai ruins.

Sukothai is Thailand's first capital in the 1200s and was amazing to see. The structures are all in various stages of ruins but a lot of them were still amazing to see and it spanded 40km sq. I biked around the ruins for 3 hours.