traveling to lampang thailand - my roommates house

The last time I was invited to sleep over at someones house was probably 8th grade. Yesterday Jammy, my roommate, invited me over to his house. Yes I am 22 years old and accepted a sleep over invation. Pete, my good friend who came with my from SLU was invited to. So after class friday we jumped onto Jammy's motor bike and headed to his house in Lampang (about 30 min drive from campus). If you ever go to Thailand or southeast asia the best way to see and understand the country is to travel by motorbike. For the past week I have been accompanying my roommate anytime he goes out on his bike because it is the coolest experiance. Driving down a street filled with cars, bikes, people on a motrobike is one of the most surreal and unbelievable experiance you could ask for. So, although they are very dangerous, please take advantage of renting one or finding a Thai friend who has one. So long story short, Pete and I went to Jammy's house, which is really just a shop with a room in the back. We met his mother and aunt who spoke zero english and thought my friend pete, who is 6'2, around 200 pounds with red hair, was the most interesting thing they have ever seen. After meeting Jammys family, we went out to dinner, saw a temple made out of gold, ate bugs that were disgusting and finished our night by falling alseep in one big bed....what did you do last night?



-part of the ride to Lamgpang



-the beginning part of the ride. Chiang Mai is surronded by mountains on all sides, its very stunning to see the clouds lift showing the actual size and beauty of the mountains.



-another picture of the ride. One thing that I love about Thailand is wherever you go it is an experiance.



-so 15 minutes into the ride, Jammy tells me that I showed get excited because I am about to see the most beautiful trees. I am not sure the exact age of these trees, but I can only imagine.



-welcome to Lampang!

So we arrived in Lampang right before night fall and Jammy wanted to show us his temple. I was pretty tired and wanted to go to bed, but when I saw the temple in the distance my jaw dropped.




-The real name of the temple is Wat Phra That Lampang Luang. It is a buddhist temple and made out of 100% gold leaves.

After stopping the bikes to go see the temple, it turned out that it was locked for the night...However Jammy knew one of the monks and he let us in, by ourselves walking around...it was amazing.





After seeing the temple we headed out for a night cap dinner.



-for dinner we stopped at this low key restaurant that over looked a night market. We were supplied with our own grill/stove as you can see and we just cooked all types of raw meats (pork, steak, fish, chicken). It was great.


My trip to my roommates house was a new experiance. Very different, odd but fun. I lived his life for a night. I slept in pretty much a hole in a wall with one bed. I can't wait for another experiance like it.