Lampamg, the horse carriage city.
When people travel from Bangkok to Chiang Mai or from Chiang Mai to Bangkok by car, the trip is going to pass through many different provinces. Lampang province is one of the border city before you get to Chiang Mai. Lampang located in area near by the Wang River bank. This river is one of the four main rivers in the north to form The Choa Phra Ya River in Bankok. { 4 of the main rivers in the North of Thailand that form The Choa Phraya River in Bangkok are The Ping River ( from Chiang Mai province), The Wang River ( from Lampang province) , The Yom River ( from Phrea province) and The Nan River ( from Nan province) meet at Pak Nam Poh, Nakornsawan province where the Beng Boraphet lake located. You could kind more information via our blog.) Therefore in Lampang as it is located in the hilly area the same as Chiang Mai. Travelling in the old day would be by elephants and horses. No wonder you would hear about the Elephant Conservation Center or the information of the logging history in the northern part of Thailand. BY the way, elephants would be used for the royal families while the horses are used by the noble family and the local. The same as the West that travel by horse could be carried only one at the time. So that they had used the carriage to take more people around. The horse carriage was very popular in the reign of King Rama 5th of Thailand as we had contacted to the West and had also get the influences from the West as the world had changed, we also had to adept to the new world to avoid being part of the colony. However when the car with the engine started to get in Thailand, Lampang still keep the horse carriage and using them ever since. Nowday the horse carriage becomes the symbol of Lamapang province, but there are not many people continue using them only for the tourists to enjoy and atmosphere of the town with it. They even have the sentence if you visit Lampang and never try travlling by the horse carriage, you are not in Lampang yet. This is the reason that when travel to Lampang, you should try the horse carriage and enjoy with the ride. As Lampang is a small town, stopping by in Lampang would take not too long before continuing to Chiang Mai and visit some other places.
