Elephant rides?
May 29th, 2014, 12:48 AM
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Elephant rides?
If you are thinking for elephant riding, take a look at this..
http://www.adventuretravelnews.com/i...elephant-rides
http://www.adventuretravelnews.com/i...elephant-rides
May 29th, 2014, 04:49 AM
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If you want to interact with elephants, I encourage you to choose done of the places that has been reviewed by animal welfare groups and has received high marks: The Elephant Nature Park or The Thai Elephant Conservations Center, both near Chiang Mai. The ones rated highly on Trip Advisor are ones that use hooks, and elephants often have fresh scars from the hooks.
Note that there is a small division of the Thai Elephant Conservations Center at the Anatara at the Golden Triangle.
Note that there is a small division of the Thai Elephant Conservations Center at the Anatara at the Golden Triangle.
May 29th, 2014, 06:44 AM
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For me, the issues are not so much that of being ridden, but tourism encouraging capturing wild elephants and cruelty to the elephants in captivity. The change Intrepid is making (as I read it) is more about discouraging further capturing of wild elephants, not so much about riding "hurting" elephants.
May 29th, 2014, 07:42 AM
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Its purely PR and will make no difference. Do you really think the locals care about Intrepid? Most local elephant handlers have never heard of them and couldnt careless.
Makes as much diff as these fools who switch lights off for 1 hr a year thinking they are saving the planet.
Makes as much diff as these fools who switch lights off for 1 hr a year thinking they are saving the planet.
Jun 17th, 2014, 08:05 AM
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Amazing Kathie - common ground.
As the policy is part of a raft of measures both international and local it is ALREADY part of a sea-change in attitudes to the treatment of elephants and wildlife... so Prachuap you're too late really.
So Prachuap, what would your advice to visitors be be?
As the policy is part of a raft of measures both international and local it is ALREADY part of a sea-change in attitudes to the treatment of elephants and wildlife... so Prachuap you're too late really.
So Prachuap, what would your advice to visitors be be?
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