Years ago, Mike went to visit the Elephant Nature Park during his trip through Thailand. Here’s why you should go there too… There are about twenty different elephant experiences within an hour or so of Chiang Mai. They run the spectrum from very-elephant-friendly to downright cruel. The worst feature circus shows and pile clumps of tourists on the over-worked elephants (even the Frommer’s guide has a photo of people riding elephants) — and the nicest of concierges have no idea why visitors would even have an issue about this. I’m no PETA activist, but I couldn’t have enjoyed myself if I thought I was helping mistreat elephants. So after some…
