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Eddy Elephant in Chiang Mai is a unique ride with your own elephant and definitively the best elephant tour.
Learn how to care and respect elephant.
After pick you up at your hotel around 9.am, your day will start with a stop at the local market to get some bananas, then with a small group you will learn how to communicate with your elephant. After the delicious Thai lunch, with your elephant, you will ride and trek in the jungle and finish your day having a bath and playing in the river with your big buddy.
The elephants are not inside a park, not inside a camp, neither a farm or even an hospital. “Can we said: is Eddy elephant Chiang Mai an elephant camp? an elephant farm? or an elephant park? Surely No: Eddy elephant is a group of elephant owners who care them at home. They are part of their family. This is Fair Trade and responsible Tourism involving locals.
One of the interesting activities in Chiang Mai is closing up to a real elephant. Eddy is the owner who had taking care of his 15 elephants. The oldest elephant is 57 years old and then from generation to generation. He ensures you exactly to enjoy in private tour. You will learn about the behaviors and also you will learn how to control and bathing them as you are a mahout. Surly, you are able to ride them through the jungle. Enjoy!
Eddy Elephant Chiang Mai Activities Schedule
- Pick up at your hotel/ guesthouse between 08.30-09.00 a.m.
- Buy bananas at the local market
- Head to our camp about 1 hour
- Change the (provided) clothes as a mahout
- Learn about elephant and instruction and how to ride them
- Feed elephant – Lunch
- Ride your own elephant through the jungle
- Back into the river and bath your elephant
- Back around 4.00-5.00 p.m.
Eddy Elephant Chiang Mai Activities Schedule
- Pick up at your hotel/ guesthouse between 08.30-09.00 a.m.
- Buy bananas at the local market
- Head to our camp about 1 hour
- Change the (provided) clothes as a mahout
- Learn about elephant and instruction and how to ride them
- Feed elephant – Lunch
- Ride your own elephant through the jungle
- Back into the river and bath your elephant
- Back around 4.00-5.00 p.m.
About Thailand’s Talented Elephants
Elephants are an important part of Thai culture and the Thai way of life. They are a traditional symbol of royal power, an essential feature of Buddhist art and architecture, an a spiritual mentor for people of all walks of life. In the early part of this century, elephants roamed freely and in multitude throughout Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Prior to the 18th century they were the main machine of Southeast Asian war, a Thai king of the late 17th century having had 20,000 war elephants trained for battle. Elephants in Thailand have always been a symbol of both power and peace. They have always performed the most exacting physical tasks. And they have always been well loved. The number of elephants in Thailand today is limited to about 2,600. Most of these are at various elephant camps around the country where they learn to work in the forests and mountains and to entertain the hundreds of thousands of people who go to see them each year, and where they live, play and reproduce in a setting that is as close to the wild as possible. Here we present some of the many traditional roles the elephant has played in Thailand since the days of old Siam. The elephant is acknowledged as having many wide attributes, and perhaps the most obvious is talent. Talent for a stately presence, for delicate foot movement and agility, for intelligence on the field of sport, and at the same time a particular gentleness that makes the elephant not only a highly respected creature of the land but also one that is appreciated and loved. read more in Thailand’s Talented Elephants
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