Check out these top things to do in Lamphun, Thailand, and enjoy authentic local experiences before the rest of the world catches on. Located 20 km away from the national park center, the undisturbed Koh Luang Waterfall stuns nature lovers with its serene greenish-blue water and myriads of fishes.
In addition, amateur spelunkers can admire the stalagmites and stalactites on this limestone wonder. The waterfall water tends to be cold and potential cramps can do in even the best swimmers. Inner peace..
Here, the 2, Karen villagers eat vegetarian and run a local textile center, keeping their traditional backstrap looming art alive. Backstrap looming is fascinating.
The weaver wears a looming belt made of leather or thick cloth and controls the strings by moving her body. Some South American countries like Guatemala and Peru also see this awe-inspiring art. What marks their ritual as ultimately unique from the rest of Thailand is that even the offerings to monks are vegetables. He was plagued by a crow every time he set foot around there. Furious and annoyed, he finally had the crow captured.
Later in his dream, an angel clued him in on what to do. The king was advised to put a 7-day old baby with the crow. The devout king was astonished and had the toilet uprooted, replaced the land with more fertile soil and held a worship ceremony. Though she be but little town , she is fierce when it comes to food. This first civilization of the North is the birth place of the ancient Mon Alphabets, around the 15 th — 17 th Century of Buddhist Era.
Over 10 stone inscriptions were found, all of which represent the ingenuity and prosperity of the town administration and religion. Hariphunchai became a strategic town that many states visited, in order to extend their relationship, whether in term of the diplomatic, commerce, social welfare, manners and customers, tradition and culture, etc.
Therefore, the art and culture of Hariphunchai were a perfect mixture of various arts and cultures. The monarchs of Cham Thewi Royal House ruled over this city continuously, for over years. There were approximately 50 monarchs who ruled over Hariphunchai. After the town of Hariphunchai was created for around three centuries, Lawo, the original affiliated town of Hariphunchai, during Thawaravadee Era, has fallen to Khmer.
As a result, Lawo became an opposing kingdom to Hariphunchai. At that time, kingdoms of the South started expanding their influence from the coastal area to the inner low land, in order to expand their trade routes. Eventually, during the reign of King Chao Kamonracha, there was an epidemic that killed so many people, the Mon People of Hariphunchai fled to Pegu and Saterm Suthamwadi for 6 years.
They return to the town after the epidemic had died down. In their return, the Pego Mon People traveled back with them, and the people of Hariphunchai also exchanged the culture of Raming River People with the Salween River People, and brought with them the tradition of Loi Ha Moad during the rainy season, a tradition that became the origin of Loi Krathong Festival of Sukhothai Era, a festival that was passed on to today. The 16 th — 17 th Century of Buddhist Era was the time where this kingdom was most prosperous in every aspect.
The history of this period was getting clearer. Besides a vast amount of physical historical evidences, there are also so many written evidences, namely, stone inscriptions made in ancient Mon languages from this era were found in Thailand.
These evidences appeared during the reign of Phaya Artittayarat, the king of Hariphunchai who found the sacred relics of Buddha and built Phra Borommasari Rikkatart The Holy Relics in the middle of the town, which served as the first central of faith in the North.
Later, during the reign of Phaya Sawawathisit, who was also known as Phaya Sappasat, a king who ordained as a Buddhist monk while he was crowned as a king, King Sawawathisit dedicated his palace, Chettawanalai Palace, to be rebuilt as Wat Chettawanalai Temple Wat Don Kaew.
King Sawawathisit was ordained with his queen and his son. He planted the great Po tree and invited the people to support the great Po tree.
Afterward, they received Brahmanism from the hermit. Until the era of Hariphunchai Kingdom, Buddhism established for the first time in the North, and eventually transformed into other Buddhism sects, such as, Lung-ga Wong, Raman Wong, etc.
King Artittayarat built the first Pagoda for the sacred relics of Buddha in the North. It was part of the ancient royal tradition that every monarch must pay his visit to the Phra Mahatart Chedi Hariphunchai before they may ascend to the throne. Other evidences suggest that even Buddhist monks from Tibet traveled to pay their respect to Phra Mahatart Chedi Hariphunchai.
Wat Phratart Hariphunchai is also known as the temple for those who born in The Year of the Cock as well. Queen Cham Thewi brought with her the more advance civilization of Thawaravadee to the area on Ping River in the North of Thailand for the very first time. As the sun always go down to the West, the dawn and the days of the city of Hariphunchai had eventually set.
In , King Mengrai led a great army to burn the city of Hariphunchai to the ground, during the reign of Phraya Yiba. Practical information about Lamphun If the city of Lamphun in itself can easily be visited in one day from Chiang Mai, either by being transported or by taking the train or the blue sky songthaews local buses , to visit the whole province, being transported will be almost essential.
I did not seen scooters or cars rental shops in Lamphun, which is not that surprising when knowing that the city is not really used to receiving foreign tourists who remain very rare except perhaps on some special occasions like Loy Krathong where some tourists would rather come to Lamphun than stay in Chiang Mai.
How to get around in Lamphun? To go around in Lamphun city, there are tuk-tuks or maybe even some rickshaws in front of the city's train station. It also seems that because of its proximity to Chiang Mai, we can also now use GRAB application to order a car with driver. On the other hand, to visit outside the city, having your own means of transport is highly recommended. Festivals in Lamphun? Here is a list of the main festivals taking place every year in Lamphun. I mention their dates as soon as they are official on Thai Festivals page.
How to ask in Thai to go to Lamphun? Where is Lamphun? When to go to Lamphun? A little tip for the guide? A bit like you sometimes leave a tip to the guide at the end of an organized trip, if Thailandee.
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