Chiang Mai

Nic goes solo, err but with her fancy Thai boy guide

Lisa enjoying the ride, me fearing for my life

Baby longneck

Mummy longneck

Bamboo rafting

Elephant 'painting' a picture (see little Thai man actually guiding the trunk behind!)

The masterpiece, 600 baht madam!

Pele eat your heart out

Chiang Mai is in the far North of Thailand and seems a bit more interesting. We booked a tour and were taken to an elephant farm...and there were tonnes of elephants doing some random acrobatics and being rode bareback! First of all we were taken down the river on some bamboo raft type construction, and then we saw the true 'talent' of the elephants! They played football, basketball, danced and even painted! Although, suprise it was all a thai sham, as they had some Thai kid secretly holding the trunk and painting away making Nelly look like some kind of a picasso! We did get to ride the elephants which was hilarious as I swear we had the one dysfunctional elephant that was determined to chuck us out of our extremely safe box that we were sitting in. After that we went to some Tribal village for the 'Karen Longneck' People who originally come from Burma. All the girls have heavy metal rings put around their neck and it gradually creates the look that they have a GIANT neck! It was a bit weird because it was a bit staged, but it was interesting anyway!