Jungle Elephant Sanctuary for two days!

 After recovering from food poison, we went to the Jungle Elephant Sanctuary about two hours north of Chiang Mai.  One day one we met and walked with the elephants; each elephant had a caregiver which stayed next to them all the time.  We were able to interact with the elephants all day, not behind a fence!  We took a 5K walk with them through the jungle sometimes they were on their own trail beside us, sometimes they walked with us.  Then it was bath time with clean river water, then mud bath time. We stayed on-site in a room without AC, but it had a fan which helped.

The next day we had our own private tour guide that took us to more elephant camps, jungle villages, and we eat and interacted with the villagers.