Lampang
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 @ 10:26 PM
During the past weekend, my family and I traveled to the North where we visited the Lampang and Chiang Mai provinces. This post will focus on my trip around Lampang, and in a couple of days I will be uploading the photos from Chiang Mai on a seperate entry.So. Lampang. - The reason that my family had decided to head North in the first place was because two of my mom's workers (who are supposedly each others co-worker) were getting married in Lampang, where the bride's family lives. After a 7 hour long car ride to Lampang, we arrived at the hotel and readied ourselves for the wedding reception that evening.
There was a giant cage of parrots at the hotel we stayed at for the night. I love their colorful feathers!
There was also this dog laying around the hotel area with heterochromia. Click on the picture for a larger view!
A view of the hotel we stayed at, called the Grand Amazon Hotel.
My little sister, Lily, all dressed up for the wedding.
Me!
Lily and my grandma, who didn't attend the wedding with us.
My sister and my mommy.
Us wedding attendants!
The family post-wedding. We decided then to walk around the streets of Lampang where they had many beautiful decorations set up.
In front of the King Tritan waterfall!
A group of teenages/young adults were performing around there as well. They were really good!
Day 2.
We visited a temple!
A horse carriage. I saw many of these all over the streets of Lampang!
At the front of the temple.
At the entrance of the temple.
Inside the temple.
Dad writing our names all over the candle, which we would individually light later.
My name!
My mom writing our family names on this big cloth.
Our names! Me and my sister wrote our own names (they're the darkest ones). My mom also wrote in my aunt and my cousin's name for them even though they didn't come with us.
My dad wrote in my grandpa and grandma's names as well, both of whom have just passed away recently. RIP.
One of my favorite shots! People make these money strings by stapling in their own money. My family also helped to contribute to these money strings.
Fam shots!
Ringing the giant bell.
My grandma adding in my little cousin's name on the big cloth as well.
Stopped for lunch here.
Northern Thai Khao Soi.
Our next stop was the Jaezon Hot Springs!
People buy eggs to cook in the hot springs water. The instructions say for the eggs to be left underwater for 17 minutes before taking out, to ensure that the egg yolk cooks and that the egg whites remain liquid-y. Apparently that is the best recipe for good tasting egg :)
We met my mom's co-worker at the site as well. They also had taken the chance to continue vacationing after having attended the wedding.
Me and Lily dipping our feets into the hot springs water.
Grandma decides to take it a little further, dipping in half her leg and her arms into the hot springs water.
My cheerful little sister.
At the waterfall.
Dipping our hands into the freezing cold waterfall water.
There were better shots of them but my mom was a little shy of them so I decided to upload only this one :)
Ending the photo collection with some flower shots.
Stay tuned for the upcoming Chiang Mai photos!
November-December Update!
Monday, December 19, 2011 @ 9:42 PM
Hi readers, if there is still any. I apologize for not being very active with my posts. It's just been a really busy school semester overall, and I barely have the time to take photos as frequently as I would have liked to. Anyways, since it is the Winter Break now, I am hoping to catch up with my photography, as well as posting more on my blog. Here's just another "teaser" photo of the (hopefully) more photo sets that will be updated here in the following days:
Gotta love quote photos :)
11/11/11
Friday, November 11, 2011 @ 11:56 PM
Hello everyone! I know I haven't been very active with my updates on this blog but these days I have been incredibly busy. I apologize that the current passage is not (and isn't going to be) very well written due to the fact that I am currently rushing to get this post up before midnight.So today is 11/11/11 and indeed many people have taken the oppurtunity to get married and all that, and yes make "epic" wishes. As for myself, I have made two wishes (one in the a.m. while I was in school, and one recently alongside my sister and dad). This is indeed a very rare and special day, and so I just wanted to share a photo that I have taken last month of...birthday candles. They were taken on my sister's 11th birthday (what coincidence) and the reason why I picked this was inspired by the hype that everyone was creating of making wishes on this day. I know many of us make our special wishes on our birthdays, and so this photo to me just captures the essense of hope and all the joy we carry as we blow off all those candles from our cake. Beauty, isn't it?
What was your 11/11/11 wish?