Our second day in Chang Mai dawned bright and early, where our guide met us at the hotel to take us on a little Thailand adventure.
First onto a bamboo rafting ride... with free hats!
Along the way we spied a mamma elephant giving a ride to some tourists with her baby in tow...
David giving it a whirl... he did pretty good!
Arriving at the elephant camp, we got to watch the elephant getting a bath, which they seemed to thoroughly enjoy.
Most of the elephants at the camp used to work for logging camps, and are now here at this place, earning their keep by... painting. Seriously. And they're really good.
And then we went for a ride!
The elephant ahead of us had a little baby who followed right along the whole time.
Though he did stop and dawdle quite often. Then our elephant would come up behind him and nudge him and he would trot to catch up with his momma. So cute.
-------------------------------------------------------
Leaving the elephant camp, we stopped at a place called Tiger Kingdom, which for a not-so-small fee you can hang out and pet the tigers. It was a bit on the dodgy side because you can pretty much walk right in the cages, which was either a.) really really dangerous or b.) not-so-dangerous but only because they do something to the tigers to make them not-so-dangerous. We declined to pay $30 to pet a tiger and settled for pictures only.
---------------------------------------------------
Back in the city we took some time to walk around a bit. Remember my pictures from Vietnam with people and the little kids on the bikes? Well, here's one with two big dogs.
---------------------------------------------------------
Tomorrow - Wrapping Up Thailand at 5AM
No comments:
Post a Comment