Elephant Camp and Rafting Chiang Mai

We did one day tour in Chiang Mai, a bit tight but we did it all 🙂  Shopping in the morning plus a visit to the Cultural Center, then lunch then Elephant ride and rafting in the afternoon 

Heart2Heart loves loves elephants!! 🙂

How cute a baby elephant! 🙂  But even if it was a baby, we were still scared to go near it

They eat tons and tons of food in a day!

It’s like a ride in an amusement park, you have to fall in line, go up a ramp to the station and then ride on the elephant 🙂

You can feed the elephants 

We liked this ride a bit better compared to the one in India because it had a water passage

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Although the one in India was probably much safer since it was more flat.  This one had a lot of uphills and downhills.  Another difference between the one in India was this was a full seat with a bar handle to hold, the one in India was a flat seat with legs stretching forward – a bit difficult but I realized later on that the flat one was safer since I was falling in this seat – a bit scary – I almost fell downward when the elephant stepped down.  Kids must hold on tight- there are no seat belts

Hi Papa and Javier!!  It’s amazing how the guide just sits on the head of the elephant without anything strapped on them.  We were holding on really tight to our seat!

In the middle of the trip, there is a food stand where you can buy food for the elephants and feed them 

What we saw 

Resting midway

One of the rules is not to let your guide go down and take your photo, well ours did on his own and as soon as he went down – the elephant put up his trunk and blew on us!  It was a bit scary and could get scary if the elephant gets out of control so maybe better not to allow it

Going back passing water again

You can’t ever get tired of feeding the elephants because they really eat a lot!

Right after we went to the rafts

A leisure ride through the river

It was funny because when we got to the end, we saw this truck that arrived carrying the rafts – we figured they will bring the rafts back up instead of the rafts going back up manually – which is why we did not see any raft going the opposite direction 🙂

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