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Elephant
Ride or Elephant
Trekking
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A
ride on the back of an elephant is a little adventure,
high up there
on the wooden bench on top of the elephant you can feel
like the Maharajahs of wherever.
Elephant rides or elephant trekking in Thailand are offered in
most tourist centers in Thailand, it’s fun for the tourist
and the Thai make some money since it is quite expensive,
prices range between Baht 600,- and Baht 1000,- per head. I don’t know what the elephant thinks about it, but I
know that sometimes the Elephants get angry with this 2 legs
monsters who command them around and the 4 leg monster kill
the 2 leg monster, it happen from time to time in Thailand.
But in any case a elephant ride or trekking through the
rough terrain and little rivers, maybe some jungle
around should be on the agenda during a Chiang Mai visit.
Thai’s have a lot of experience and passion for elephant’s,
that is also expressed that when they find a white elephant
-albino- it will be presented to the King.
White elephants were always a symbol of royalty in
Thailand and neighboring Myanmar or Burma.
A elephant is the largest animal trampling the earth.
An elephant is able to carry up to 600 kg, depends on his
age and size and need a lot of food - up to about 160 kg
every day, it again depends on the age and size of the
elephant, the elephant is a vegetarian.
With some
luck a elephant can get around 70 years old maybe
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more, nobody asked the elephant yet how old he or she is, so it’s
mainly guessing.
Elephants have a high level of social
behavior and long lasting memories.
They can communicate
over long distances through low range sound, inaudible to
humans.
The Thai have a long time experience
in capturing and training wild elephants.
Today
the need to have the elephants doing real work has
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gone and the beasts are used for tourist
entertainment purpose.and for elephant show’s where
the elephants show their skills by moving logs, do
some tug pulling, maybe play elephant soccer and
other strange things. In any case it shows that a
elephant is a very strong animal but also quite
intelligent.
Elephant Mahout or elephant drivers and other people
from the elephant camp live here. |
After
the elephant ride a bamboo raft tour is offered.
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There are two types of elephants, the African elephant
and the Asian elephant. The main difference between the
African and Asian elephants is the size of the ears, the
African elephants has larger ears. Most elephants in the
circus are Asian elephants.
Have a happy elephant ride !
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