Kobe meeting his elephant

A Day with the Elephants ...

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June 23rd 2013
Oh my oh my ... what an experience we had at the Patara Elephant Farm in Chiang Mai. Let me share a bit about it! I had read a lot about the elephants in Thailand before our holiday and I found out many of the elephants here today are used for tourism and not treated very well. I didn't want to take the boys somewhere to see elephants painting pictures or walking on their back legs ... thi ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more