Visiting ELEPHANTS in Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇹🇭
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- We visit the Elephant retirement park in Chiang Mai, showing you the experience, with the elephants and explaining how they are kept in comparison to other places. This is an ethical elephant park and I highly recommend it!
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Elephants in Thailand, there are many misconceptions about elephants especially in Thailand. Elephants has been used in warfare for centuries. ( Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos) they are also used as an important mode of transportation, logging and ceremonial. Naturally, they were caught in the wild and also bred in captivity. Their life is totally different from African elephants. They form a special bond with their mahouts ( caretakers) and are usually paired for life. Many if not most of the domesticated elephants will not survive in the wild, thus we have elephant sanctuary all over Thailand. Thank you for visiting this particular sanctuary, the income supports the wages of the mahouts and staff that look after the elephants. Naturally there were elephants that were abused, not many.
As a Thai, your channel makes me want to travel around my country. haha (I’m always excited when traveling abroad, but just realized that my country also has many amazing places to visit)
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thank you Joel for visiting and supporting the elephant sanctuary instead of those riding camps... hopefully more tourists do the same as Thailand moving in the right direction
I melted when i saw the little elephant
Great video! I love elephants! They're such interesting and wonderful animals and it's so nice to see them happy ☺️
This has quickly become my favorite channel
Aw thank you so much! Glad you are enjoying my videos!
Wow! Great tour. Welcome to Thailand. Have a nice trip.
Thank you! Will do!
First. I Love the content by the way I aspire you to be like you🙂
Aww thank you Alex, such a kind comment! 😊
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both of you have done an amazing job of presenting tourist attractions of Thailand to the world. Thank you so much! this makes me want to go there😂
😍Thank you so much😍👏👏 Good Video👍 amazing thailand😁😍
Welcome to Thailand. Wish you have an explore experience, excellent memory and safety.
Thanks video Elephant and Thailand beautiful so cute.🙏🎊🎉🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🥰♥️✨
You look sp great in tribal Thai shirts.💕💖
4:30 AWWWWWW….super cutie pie!
6:05 My heart…❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great video! I enjoy watching
Glad you enjoyed, thank you!
Amazing footage my friend excellent great shooting thank you for sharing Big Big Like 😊🌴👍👍👍🇮🇹
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the video!
That's wonderful ☺️😊❤️. Really cute the little baby elephant .. too much excitement and I really enjoyed watching your Asian Tour . Keep enjoying guys ..
Looks like a cool day out. I done an elephant safari many years ago in Thailand and totally regretted it but this looks good.
I was unsure at what it would be like at first but was happily released when we saw how well the elephants were kept!
thanks for the video, spent a lot of time in chiang mai last year.. and staying here again right now.. but never thought about going to see the elephants as I didnt wanna support any place in which the elephants might not be held in a good way. I didn't inform myself about it as you did.. therefore I did not know that there are actually places worth visiting and supporting :) gonna have to take a look some day and mabye create a video myself to spread the word :)
Love this video , thx you joel.
Glad you enjoyed it
that's interesting about them being penned in at night. we went to a different sanctuary in chiang mai recently that had just opened back up after being closed for a year and they said the elephants just wandered the property during that time it was closed. There was also farmland nearby it seemed but maybe they weren't using pesticides or something
Ah that looked like so much fun! I smiled through the whole video! 😂
Aww glad it made you smile, thanks for watching!
Hi! we sincerely appreciate your love for our elephants. It’s wonderful to see elephants able to live on their own. In the future, we hope to be able to rescue more elephants. and we hope to see you again ❤
Been there done that and it is wonderful
Such a beautiful experience isn’t it?
What a fun, great experience!
Was a very fun experience, thanks Jeff
@@Joelfriend you guys seemed to bond with the elephants….you should buy a baby elephant and take it back to the UK with you as a pet! 😉
Amazing 👏
I love elephants , I always smile when I see them 🥰
Very warm video.
Wow . I love and see your all videos. from Thailand 🇹🇭
Aww thank you very much!
Thailand is the paradise and the second home for all visitor !!!
Do you guys plan on going to any other countries after Thailand, if so where and how are you getting there? I imagine you are going to have to fly right bc I think most of the land borders are currently closed? Also just found your channel about a week ago and your videos have been helpful, thanks.
Aww thank you so much for watching my videos! 😊 so we are planning on going to more countries we fly out of Thailand on 15th April! So not long to a NEW COUNTRY!
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So cool
I literally wore that exact pink chequered top they give out lol
Ahaha no way!! 😂
@@Joelfriend honestly no banter 😂 I was vibingggg
You have to talk to the elephants in Thai great vlog
Ahhh right, that’s why they didn’t understand me
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What documentation is needed and what current travel restrictions are there for Thailand?
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Hi guys, how do you find hotels and places to stay in Thailand, I’m presuming it wasn’t all booked in advance. Found your channel as I contemplate a travelling trip around Thailand this summer.
agoda is good for finding accomodations in asia
ENP is better… but glad you had a great time…🙏
when elephants are happy they wag thier tales just like dogs!
Good job. Chang or elephants are used a lot in thailand as beast of burden and war animals(something like tank)
Thailand Bangkok love😁😁😁
Emilia is so cute🥰
Has Amelia got a youtube channel ? shes great
Nope ahaha! She’s going to be getting more involved with my videos though 😊
Good 👍🏼 and I want you to have Thai subtitles.
I have just auto translated thai subtitles for you!
Ok 👌🏼 thanks u 🙏🏻
Water war with elephants is so fun 😂
Hello, just came across your instagram and YT channel. Great content! Was wondering how sustainable is the income from specifically just YT?
Hey, it varies I have been trying for a few years and only has become my job in the last 6 months
Hi, I’m going to Chiang Mai on Monday, did you do the full day or half day? Just about to book but undecided!
www.getyourguide.co.uk/chiang-mai-l271/chang-mai-elephant-care-program-at-elephant-retirement-park-t154758/?partner_id=CDNOMEC&cmp=ElephantTour1 We booked this tour!
It’s a half day tour
"Feels like a dinosaur" "She was born in 1987 so she's quite an old girl" ... Me in my 30s, my knees aching for no apparent reason, watching this: yeah sometimes I really do feel prehistoric 😂 Anyway lovely to see those elephants looking so happy and enjoying a life where they get to make their own decisions rather than having to perform for people. I did elephant riding in India when I was 19 as part of a group tour and I feel really sad now thinking about it - I'm very glad now that everyone is so much more aware of what a miserable life that is for an elephant. Hopefully the more tourists opt for places like the retirement park, the more likely there will be a ban on elephant riding in the future.
I am curious about how many times the elephants take a bath. This park has morning visit and afternoon visit, which means the elephants there need to be bathed twice every day. Do they really need twice bath?
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Why is it ok to ride horses and get them to do all kinds of unnatural things but it's not ok to ride elephants?
Personally, I’m not sure how ethical horse riding is but the big thing is to get a wild elephant to be ridden it has to be beaten and drugged up so it doesn’t harm us humans 😊
I like your vlog a lot. But please get this correct information... Thai government doesn't want a lot of money from tourists by using elephants in tourism industry. Many Thai families have been feeding elephants since the past if you check Thai history. Because the cost of feeding is very very high, so those families, organisations and Thai government must do activities under the law to make the elephants survive.
I am just repeating information that the guide told us
I understood. Thanks for your reply. Thanks a lot for supporting the elephant sanctuary.
You look nice in Thai shirt.