Chiang Mai Road Trip Pages

CHIANG MAI – CHIANG DAO - LAMPANG – LAMPHUN – CHIANG MAI 23rd December 2020 – 3rd January 2021 PART 5

LAMPANG - (VIA LAMPHUN) - CHIANG MAI

Time to reluctantly leave Lampang, a great place and accommodation for a long weekend. It has a really nice atmosphere about it and is easy to get to via public transport with flights & trains from Bangkok. Due to the outbreak of Covid in Samut Sakhon I had brought all of my belongings with me, with the idea that if it looked like Bangkok would go into lock down, I could return from there. Fortunately, the progress of the situation allowed me to continue my trip. Lampang has many interesting styles of temple and I look forward to returning there in the future to check out more. We took the shorter route back to Chiang Mai with a stop off at Wat Si Rongmuang, a Burmese

Temple, along the way. We also passed through a small town called Lamphun where we stopped briefly at a pretty café called “The Temple” (due to its proximity to a very impressive temple complex across the road) Here we had excellent homemade cakes - Yum! Yum! For the last 24 kms of our journey we took the very scenic Old Lamphun Road (route 106) rather than Route 11. I would say this is a must travel route as it includes a lovely 15 km stretch lined on either side with Giant Yang Na trees wrapped in orange material to show they are protected. I so liked the look of the temple in Lamphun that I decided I would return the next day on my own while my friend worked.