Chiang Mai, day two. Elephants!

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August 16th 2013
Today was an incredible day and there is no way that my words will do it justice. But since I tried to describe the Hanoi traffic, I'll give this a shot too. We were collected from our hotel around 7:45am and driven about 45 minutes up into the foothills of the mountains. Our destination was the Patara Elephant Farm. It gets first place on Trip Advisor for all activities in Chiang Mai, and ... 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