Northern Thai Elephant Trails by Tuk Tuk
Duration: 1 day
Highlights: CHIANG MAI
• Drive your own tuk tuk in the countryside
• Lunch at a sustainable elephant home
• Float down the river on a bamboo raft
This tour is a recommended sample itinerary that can be fully customized to your preferred dates, time frame, hotels and interests. Contact your preferred travel agent for more information.
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Itinerary
Get ready for an exciting chauffeur-driven/self-drive tuk tuk adventure in the remote hills of northern Thailand, exploring rural life, remote temples and an elephant home. After a 45-minute transfer to Mae Wang district, hop into your tuk tuk, which has been customized to make the most of Chiang Mai’s rolling hills, and set off on a journey to discover scenic mountain trails, farming villages, fields and rice terraces.
In the early afternoon, you arrive at a small, ethical elephant home. Learn about the relationship between elephants and the local community, the history of the home and their vision for creating a sustainable future for the elephants and their mahouts. Your visit here today helps continue the important work of this small-scale, ethical enterprise. Have lunch while watching the elephants roam and play in the fields and forests, then walk through the countryside to watch them bathe in the river. Later, experience a different mode of travel and float down the local river on a traditional bamboo raft. This gentle and relaxing raft journey is a great way to experience local life from a different angle while your expert rafter negotiates the twists and turns of the river. Back on dry land, take your tuk tuk back to the tuk tuk base and transfer back to your hotel.
