Update January 29th from Lampang

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Hi everybody,

Well after 4 days staying with Paolo, we are now in Lampang.
The last night in Sukhothai we went to a little night market, and bought our food there. Fresh pineapple, mango, spicy chicken9wowo that Singha beer tasted good after a bite) and desserts that look to pretty to eat, don't want to know how much sugar is in those ones. And then the next stand we had the bugs, fried crunchy bugs and the worms, which according to Meindert were really good, he didn't want to eat one though !!!!!

We are staying in a neat Guesthouse, called the Riverside guesthouse, owned by Lorenza. She is an Italian and a friend of Paolo. We took the bus from Sukhothai to Lampang, about 3 hrs. On the way here you see where and how people live here, unbelievable. Some hardboard with a tarp, put together with rope.

Yesterday we had delicious pizza (yep, really Italian pizza from the restaurant that Lorenza owns), was good to have something different than noodles, curry or rice, cause I can tell you a slice of my own home made bread with good Dutch cheese........

The Thai people have a very very very big adoration of the King and Queen. every where you go, even in the middle of nowhere somtimes, you will see a big and I mean big picture of the King and/or Queen. And you know what he looks like he is 40 something on those pics, but in real life he is 80.

Anyway today we were at the Elephant Conservation Centre and we booked ourselves in for two days working and looking after Elephants, starting to-morrow. We will be shoveling some different stuff than snow .......


PS If there was some grammar mistakes..... I am sitting here with a dozen of Thai kids playing computer games around me all yapping and laughing,


Will update again in about 2 or 3 days, depending how I survived workcamp with the elephants

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Photos

Meindert's dinner ??????
Meindert found a lttle geko and pretended to be Thai, or was is the Dutch in him pretending to eat herring ?

One of the many buddha's
This one was in Koh Samui, a newer one

Market Sukhothai
One of the stands at the market, still have to watch tv, no matter what.

Having lunch at Paolo's place
Fresh fruit, fresh corn and some noodle soup from the 7-11

The "Bikers"
Our transportation in Sukhothai

School Assemblee
Hi everybody at Cheam, this is how the Thai kids have an assemblee on the schoolfield, while they sing the national anthem or the schoolsong (couldn't understand it) they raise the flag

Biking through the rice fields
This is what you see when you bike through the country side through the rice fields

More lunch anybody
With or without ketchup ??? Or as they would have it here chili sauce

This is where we stay now
This is the patio of the riverside guest house where we have breakfast in the morning

Comments

[Harrald]

Great !!
Great, that you spend so much time to show us these beautifull things of Thailand. Super......... I heard that the Thai's really eat those geko's ???? True???? Have fun Harrald

[de Bruijntjes]

love the geko Meindert!!
Wat een te gekke reis, ongelooflijk!!! Iedergeval denk ik dat je toch eens een fried bug moet proberen om ons te vertellen hoe dat smaakt (HA HA)!!!

[Caren]

Veel plezier met de olifanten!
Het is zo leuk om jullie ervaringen te lezen. Ik zie het allemaal voor me. Die olifanten zijn er behoorlijk in getraind om je geld af te troggelen so be careful!

[Meindert]

Tunas pizza oven market in Thailand?
Tuna's Pizza Market?? Have Fun and perhaps you can bring a trained soccer elephant home to Canada.

[Margôt]

Good protein??
Hi Guys, enjoy your stories and pictures. Looks fantastic. Came home from work today and did not feel like cooking boerenkool maar na die foto van al die deep fried bugs denk ik dat boerenkool toch wel lekker is. Hebben jullie er wat van geprobeert?? Weer is sort of lekker, wordt kouder van de week. Mag ik eigenlijk in het nederlands bloggen of niet? Tjuus

[Minish&Shuks]

Thanks for the memories
Hey guys, Glad that you are having a lovely time in Thailand still, Minish has been back to normal for about a week and I get back to my normality tomorrow as I have just got back from Egypt. It was very very nice t meet you and we'll for sure keep in touch. Hello to the kids from both of us. Minish and Shuks