Riding elephants

Amazing!!

There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this, it’s because visiting cruelty-free, no-ride, ethical elephant sanctuaries in Chiang Mai is on your bucketlist! …as it should be! Chiang Mai used to be notorious for elephant riding as well as for the infamous Tiger Temple that got shut down a few years ago for drugging

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Photo about Young beautiful woman riding on big elephant with trunk up in palm forest. India, Kerala. Image of riding, rider, gray - 18978687

After a trekking elephant died in Cambodia this week, the BBC's Anna Jones asks whether it is the end of the road for the Asian elephant ride.

Elephant ride in Thailand

Elephant riding in Thailand

We've just arrived back in Kathmandu (Sun 2 Oct) after 3 days on a jungle island in the Chitwan National Park here in Nepal. The accom was rustic at best but being on an island you didn't have to put up with hoards of tourists. We went on 3 elephant safaris into the heart of the jungle and a lot of the time you weren't on trails but actually cutting through the undergrowth. We also went on a jungle walk, bird watching (we bailed out of that one) and helped wash the elephants which was a hoot…