Elephant Jungle Sanctuary

Elephants have been an important part of Thai history. Chiang Mai is an area is South East Asia with most elephants so being here I HAD to visit them. There are many sanctuaries you can visit, only few are true ones - no allowing you to ride them, in fact they have rescued elephants that were used for touristic attractions. It costs about 2400THB for a full day visit. They picked me up in the morning and along with two British girls, one Mexican and three French guys we were put to back of a truck and went for an hour and a half long trip to the camp in the middle of the jungle.
When we got there we were like kids "Eeeeleeephaaants!!! Aaaand a baaaabyyyy!". It was awesome. They have 7 elephants, six females and one lucky (poor?) male. They are the cutest. They are way more active than those sad ones in ZOOs. After explaining us few basics about these animals (no stomack, 4 teeth, sleep 5 hours daily) they gave us bananas and sugar canes. Elephants knew this sso they came running to us :) So we fed them, tool photos, hugged and pet them, ... Pretty fun! After that we went to jungle with them so they could eat some more (no stomack means they eat all the time). After a walk and lunch - funtime! We put mud all over them (protects them from insects and sun). We gor all muddy aswell. After that ot was bath time. Water everywhere, they lay in water and paddle with their feet, it was the happiest time :D
In the end we had to say goodbye, we each took few more pictures and headed back to Chiang Mai.
Day ended by visiting Saturday Night Market, where thousands of people come to eat, shop and hang out. Once you get caught in the flow of people, there is no way out :) Ate sone pretty awesome Chicken Pad Thai for 40THB and crappes. Yum!En savoir plus