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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Elephant Riding in Chiang Mai
Location: Chiang Mai Province - Thailand Date: 7 Feb 2008
When visiting Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand you can't seem to walk more than 100 metres without passing a shop selling elephant riding tours.
There are many elephant riding trips available packaged with other activities, usually hill tribe treks and some other activity like white water rafting. These sort of day tours make for good value when you consider how much time you would save if you went to each activity individually.
Most elephant rides go for half an hour to one hour. There is no need to go for over an hour, unless you really love elephants.
Elephant Mount
Elephant Trekking
At the elephant park people were selling bundles of bananas and sugar cane to feed the elephants. It's a great way to make friends with your ride. Just give him a tap on the head and his amazing trunk will pop up and snuffle up the food on offer.
Feeding Elephant Banana
Feeding Elephant Cane
Elephant Head
When visiting Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand you can't seem to walk more than 100 metres without passing a shop selling elephant riding tours.
There are many elephant riding trips available packaged with other activities, usually hill tribe treks and some other activity like white water rafting. These sort of day tours make for good value when you consider how much time you would save if you went to each activity individually.
Most elephant rides go for half an hour to one hour. There is no need to go for over an hour, unless you really love elephants.
Elephant Mount
Elephant Trekking
At the elephant park people were selling bundles of bananas and sugar cane to feed the elephants. It's a great way to make friends with your ride. Just give him a tap on the head and his amazing trunk will pop up and snuffle up the food on offer.
Feeding Elephant Banana
Feeding Elephant Cane
Elephant Head
Labels: chiang-mai, elephant, thailand
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I love that downward photo of the elephant's trunk. How much did it cost for these tours? Were they worth it for non-elephant obsessed, but just people who are interested?
-Suz
-Suz
Thanks Suz. The tour cost 1000 Thai Baht (about 20 euro / 32 usd). There are so many day tours on offer from Chiang Mai that the price and activites in the tour vary.
The tour I did included a visit to an orchid farm, a river raft ride, elephant tour, visit to the long neck tribe and a market village run by a hill tribe as well as a walk to a watertfall. Cooked lunch included as well.
Definitely worth doing for the elephant riding - a very interesting experience.
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The tour I did included a visit to an orchid farm, a river raft ride, elephant tour, visit to the long neck tribe and a market village run by a hill tribe as well as a walk to a watertfall. Cooked lunch included as well.
Definitely worth doing for the elephant riding - a very interesting experience.
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