Last Updated on June 24, 2019 by PowersToTravel
Our drive from Suhkothai to Lampang showed us a new face of Thailand. The road became more windy, the roadsides more agricultural, the vehicles less western-appearing.
The roads were still excellent, well-paved, with a yellow line down the middle. If we had decided to self-drive in Thailand (except for Bangkok), I have no doubt we would have been successful. The road signs were generally in Thai and English, and the traffic was orderly.
Orderly?
I can still hear the buzz of the scooters and motorcycles, coming from and going to everywhere. Every line on the road – the dashed white lines between traffic and the solid yellow lines at the edge of the roadway are a marked path for a constant stream of motorbikes. With every change of lane, or turn, the car driver has to look in mirrors not only for cars but buzzing bikes.
However, everyone seems so polite. Lucky would beep his horn just a bit to tell a scooter not to try to cross in front of him, or as Lucky came up beside him a little closely.
I withdrew my attention from the vehicles and gazed out the window. We passed rice paddies.
The harvest was for the most part complete, Bom explained.
We saw several harvesters, as brightly decorated as the rest of Thailand!
We saw the beginnings of the burning of the fields, even in November. I had timed the trip to precede the burning of the fields because I had learned that beginning in January, the Chiang Mai area becomes very smoggy. I had dreamed of seeing beautiful mountain vistas, and of course the pictures to show them off. With the burning in mind, along with many other factors, I timed our Chiang Mai arrival with the end of November. The little bit of smoke we saw didn’t bother my lens at all.
The countryside became more hilly, and we skirted the edges of mountains as well, on our way to Lampang and the Lampang Jungle Lodge.
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