Chiang Mai - Elephants and Tigers

Asia • Thailand

The Elephant Training Centre Maetaeng offered performances with elephants pulling big logs, playing soccer and performing a number of tricks, including painting flowers and self-portraits with the painter's signature.

We were also in the Kingdom of the Tiger where we could make a choice of which  size of a tiger we would like to personally fondle with. We chose the medium one because for the large and a very small ones there were long queues. The medium size one could  scare us well enough, though.

There remains a topic for discussion: Do those animals like it? Is is for their own good? What do environmentalists have to say?

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