Today we had another fantastic day with some wonderful animals - elephants! There's lots of choice in Chiang Mai of elephant sanctuaries to visit. After some advice from Tartare at our guesthouse, we opted to visit Woody's Elephant Home for the day. We made this choice as the elephants are very well looked after there, being washed at least twice a day, fed different foods throughout the day and are free to roam together without any harnesses on at any time. ...

We had the best day ever today! Bright and early we rented out a moped from our guesthouse and rode for about 30 minutes to... Tiger Kingdom! Having bought our package to see a small tiger and big tiger we were excited to get inside. We had concerns over what the Tigers would be like as many reviews say that they appear to be drugged and drowsy. Of course, Tigers do naturally sleep a great amount during the day in the heat. But as we walked around the grou...

Sawadee kap from a sunny Chiang Mai, Thailand. We opted to fly from Luang Prabang in the end due to illness and also to save time. We were going to get the boat which takes 3 days but the 1 hour flight sounded like the better option. The flight was pretty interesting; it was a much smaller plane than we're used to. It had propellers and each row consisted of only 4 seats, 2 either side of the aisle. Funnily enough it took longer to get through passport contr...