CHIANG MAI HALF DAY TOURS
08:00 - 13:00 HRS. / 12:00 - 17:00 HRS.

Pick up from hotel lobby and depart to Maesa Elephant Camp; home to one of the largest assembly of elephants in the north of Thailand. The camp’s philosophy is to create a natural and healthy environment for the elephants while working to conserve and breed them, due to the dwindling number of Asian elephants left in the wild.

Watch the elephants enjoy complete freedom of movement, no longer chained; they can roam wherever they choose in the sanctuary.  The mahouts do not ride the elephants, nor do they use the hook for control.  New dust and mud bath areas have been created, and the elephants can spend time cooling off in the stream. Experiences with their daily basis activities and enjoy feeding, touching, playing, and photograph with elephants.

On the way visit to Orchid Nursery, see a large collection of different types of colorful exotic year-round-bloom orchids.

Continue to visit Kayan Long Neck Tribe Village. The woman from this tribe wears brass wires coiling around their neck. It is roughly 1.5 cm in diameter that has been heated and bent to follow the shape of the neck. By the age of 45, they may have as many as 32 coils wrapped around their neck with a combined weight of 15 kg.

They are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar mainly found in the Shan state in Myanmar. In the late 1980’s, due to increasing conflict between this minority group and the military regime in Myanmar, they started to migrated and cross over into northern part of Thailand.

Then transfer back to the hotel.