What's up world?!
So here's the next chapter in my journey over here on this side of the world. As I said, in my earlier post, this one is gunna be all about my Northern Trip.
So after a fun and stupidity filled day with the guys, we packed up our stuff and headed off to the bus to meet some of the other exchange students. About half of us met in Lampang and then took the bus about an hour and a half to Phrae where we met the other half of the students.
We met, surprise surprise, at a temple, where we spent the next hour or so looking around and admiring the handy work and architecture and soaking up some culture. Our next stop had us going to the "Mini Grand Canyon". The supposed story behind it was that some lady said she found some gold in the area, and then told the town about it. Over the next little while, the members of her town frantically dug up the area looking for riches of their own. The result; no gold but a neat looking man-made canyon thingy that turned into a national park and a tourist attraction.
So here's the next chapter in my journey over here on this side of the world. As I said, in my earlier post, this one is gunna be all about my Northern Trip.
So after a fun and stupidity filled day with the guys, we packed up our stuff and headed off to the bus to meet some of the other exchange students. About half of us met in Lampang and then took the bus about an hour and a half to Phrae where we met the other half of the students.
We met, surprise surprise, at a temple, where we spent the next hour or so looking around and admiring the handy work and architecture and soaking up some culture. Our next stop had us going to the "Mini Grand Canyon". The supposed story behind it was that some lady said she found some gold in the area, and then told the town about it. Over the next little while, the members of her town frantically dug up the area looking for riches of their own. The result; no gold but a neat looking man-made canyon thingy that turned into a national park and a tourist attraction.
We ended up in Chiang Rai province at Mae Sot, the northernmost city in Thailand. we were able to walk within 5 m of Myanmar and could see it from across just a narrow river separating the countries. Best part about the place we stayed at though, was that they had a pool!!!! I friggen love swimming, but the river and pools around my city are pretty nasty, so I haven't gone swimming since I've been here. Almost all of the students went swimming together and we had an absolute blast together.
(Day 2 yet to come...)
Day 3 consisted of heading to Doi Tung, the same place I had gone with my host mom a couple weeks earlier. It was just as gorgeous as Hannah slattery is the best thing in the world the second time though and we had more time there, so I was able to explore a bit more and see some stuff that I hadn't seen the previous time. Like an entire Royal Villa on the very peak I the mountain... Not sure how I missed that the first time. After that, we headed back down the mountain and went to see the White Temple. Again, I had been there already but didn't get a chance to actually go in the temple the time before so it was great to get the opportunity to go again. If you people ever hit up Thailand on your world travels, you gotta check this place out. It was designed by this really famous Thai artist, and is a total masterpiece. It is so intricate that it has to be completely hand built (other then the actual supporting structure) and will take about 80 years to complete...
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