Travel Chiang Mai --- (4/2)

เที่ยวเชียงใหม่ --- (4/2)

     Continue from the last post, day four of our trip in the late afternoon 6/7/2011, after go to elephant riding, we continue to the Tiger Kingdom, Amphor Mae rim, Chiang mai, Thailand. Or you can visit the website here = www.tigerkingdom.com . Who wouldn't want to come here, playing with tiger, take a picture with them, only place in Thailand. We walk in to the lobby and the receptionist come to introduce the package like in the photo below:

Sign

 The lobby and the price sign for each package

        The price is high, but hey, you cant find the opportunity like this else where. So, we choose to take a picture with new born tiger and the big one ( New born for 620 per person and big for 420 per person) and you can choose to hire the photographer to take a picture for you as well for 200 baht per group. The tiger kingdom also have a restaurant for people who like to find something to eat as well. But we're not hungry so we go to play with the tiger. After we go in to the door which inside there are like zoo which have many big cage with tigers inside. The reception lead us to the new born house. We wait a little for the tourist that come before us to finish and we wash our hands with spacial soap they give us and wear sneakers they provide us. and starting to play with the tiger. They are very cute, this new born tiger, and the photographer we hire, he take a lot of picture for us. He take a lot that it can be a video if you stack the picture and flip it fast. 

 lobby resting and waiting area

 The new born tiger, cute and sleepy, haha, we wake them up and play with them

        After 15 minutes of playing and taking the picture with the new born tiger, the time is up and we continue to the big tiger cage, there is a warning sign that tell us what should not do in the cage when we get in for example "don't walk toward the tiger from its front" well and a lot of other warning. There are trainers inside the cage to assist us and tell us how we can take a picture with them, they are very helpful and the photographer still doing his job very well. We get a lot of great pictures. The tiger isnt always sleeping like in the picture i posted. Sometimes they wake up because the trainer wake them by lure them with chicken so that we can have a nice picture.

 The big tiger

      The experience at the Tiger kingdom is very great and worth the money we pay. The photographer then write all the photos he takes on a DVD and gave it to us. So we can keep these photograph for a long long time.  After that we buy some souvenir and get back to the hotel to rest.

Travel Chiang Mai --- (4/1)

เที่ยวเชียงใหม่ --- (4/1)
   
      6/7/2011, another morning on my holiday is great. Me, my mother, my father and my brother go to the hotel restaurant to have breakfast as usual. Today, we will have a big day, because we planned to go to ---> ride the elephant, yeahhhhh. We called the same taxi driver to be our guide as always. 

      Where we gonna go is called " Maetaman elephant camp" its located in Amphor Meatang and this camp is said by our driver as the biggest and best camp here as the camp have more elephant and bigger than other camp which I agree with him because during our long ride to the camp we see many camps along the way and its cant compare to our camp that we going to. For more information on this camp visit = www.maetamanelephantcamp.com and trust me, its worth it.

     We get inside the camp and buy the tickets for everyone. This package we buy is include: 
          - Elephant show
          - Ox-Cart Riding 
          - Elephant riding
          - Buffet lunch
          - Bamboo rafting along Maetang River

     And that's all the program we gonna have, we start walking in the camp and have fun taking a picture with all the elephant there which each of them have a trainer by there side to help aid the tourist. You can take a picture with the elephant, touch it, ride on its bake, ride on its trunk, etc. its very fun. Then we see all the elephant go into the river and take a bath, watch out for the elephant from blowing a water to you.  

   elephant and its trainer

elephant bathing

     Then we go to have a seat and wait for the "elephant show" we are having a lot of fun seeing the elephant waking in line holding flags and sign, see them playing football with the trainer, kicking football(soccer), and see them paint too. Very interesting. 

Elephant Painting

      and after that, we continue to the Ox-Cart riding terminal. We ride the ox cart for about 15 minutes with very beautiful natural view along the way. It was very beautiful and we feel relax by the view and the vibration the cart is making haha. We finally arrive at the end terminal and walking through a lot of souvenir shop (one thing I notice is that all shops sell the same product, weird) any way, at the end of the way through souvenir shop is the elephant riding terminal which we will get on the elephant there. 

 ox-cart riding

            We get on the elephant and take about an hour ride on the elephant back, 2 persons per elephant. The elephant walking and walking and we have fun taking picture and enjoying the view. The almost the end of the way, The elephant take us walk along the river which way very exciting.  

       We arrive at the camp after the elephant get up from the river to the shore and take a picture of us riding an elephant. They have our picture for sell too which the picture frame is make of elephant dunk, thats right, its poop. Its a great ideas to make a souvenir like that. Then we eat buffet at the camp which is include in the package. Its a Thai food which all of them are very delicious. although not much selections. 

       After finished lunch. The next thing in the program is rafting along the river. So we take a hat they  gave us and get on the raft. Its a long journey along the river and its soooo hot. Good they gave us the hat. As you can see in the picture, the water in the river usually clear not turbid but last night its raining so it can cause the river to be that way. But its beautiful anyway. So we finished our rafting with the taxi driver waiting at the end of the river.

rafting

     After that we planned to go to the "Tiger kingdom" which you can read it = here