{"id":431,"date":"2010-10-14T02:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2013-10-17T02:57:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:57:44","slug":"october-14-2010-chiang-mai-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"October 14, 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was FABULOUS! We spent the day at Patara Elephant Farm<\/a>. There are so many elephant tours to choose from, and I’m so glad we chose this one.<\/p>\n

The day started very early with an 8am pickup from the hotel.\u00a0The 30 minute drive to the farm was beautiful, through the city, fields, and forest. I was in awe the minute we turned into the drive – there were elephants everywhere!<\/p>\n

We were met by Pat, the owner, who\u00a0told us about the farm’s mission.\u00a0The elephant is revered in Thailand and is very important to the culture. The farm has 27 elephants that they have adopted from circuses, road-side attractions, and those mistreated in the logging industry. Their breeding program has been successful – we met their new twin girls!<\/p>\n

Our group was really small – there were 4 couples. We were paired with an elephant based on their temperment and our personality. Our personal guide showed us how to check their health and then we fed them sugar cane, corn, and bananas. We walked them to the river and gave them a bath. They showed us how to climb up and\u00a0trekked through the jungle to a waterfall. We swam with them and had a fantastic lunch.\u00a0We trekked through rice paddies before returning to the farm.<\/p>\n

\"Meeting

Meeting Payow, my elephant for the day<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Swimming

Swimming with elephants in the waterfall<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Twin

Twin baby girls<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Massive

Massive footprint<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was FABULOUS! We spent the day at Patara Elephant Farm. There are so many elephant tours to choose from, and I’m so glad we chose this one. The day started very early with an 8am pickup from the hotel.\u00a0The 30 minute drive to the farm was beautiful, through the city, fields, and forest. I … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}