Lampang
Northern City Known For Its Horse Drawn Carriages, Teak Mansions And The Walled Temple Of Wat Phra That Lampang Luang · Lampang, Lampang
Lampang is a calm provincial city on the Wang river, about an hour and a half to two hours south-east of Chiang Mai, and one of the last places in Thailand where horse-drawn carriages still carry visitors through the streets, which has earned it the nickname of the city of horse carriages. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was a centre of the teak trade, run largely by Burmese, Shan and British interests, and that wealth left teak mansions such as Baan Sao Nak, the house of many pillars, a row of old shophouses along Talad Gao, where the Kad Kong Ta walking street runs at weekends, and several Burmese-style temples of carved wood and tiered roofs. Lampang is also the home of the rooster bowl, the white bowl painted with a cockerel found in noodle shops across the country. Outside town lie Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, a walled Lanna temple and one of the finest in the north, the government-run Thai Elephant Conservation Center, the hot springs of Chae Son and the famous pagodas perched on a limestone peak at Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat.
Talad Gao, Suan Dok, Lampang, Lampang, 52100, Thailand
NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: town temples and Wat Phra That Lampang Luang are open every day from about 7 am to 5 or 6 pm; Baan Sao Nak and small museums open roughly 9 or 10 am to 5 pm, some with a weekly closing day; the Kad Kong Ta walking street runs on weekend evenings from about 5 to 10 pm; the Thai Elephant Conservation Center runs from about 8 am to 4 pm with show times in the morning and early afternoon; Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat's songthaew runs in set daytime hours, with last departures well before dark. The traps that ruin a day are arriving on a weekday and missing the walking street, reaching the cliff-top pagodas after the last songthaew, climbing in the midday heat and hazy smoke in March and April hiding the views. Confirm current times before relying on them.