so today we are visiting an elephant retirement park in chiang mai thailand i'm so excited
amelia loves elephants they are my favorite animal so i think today's gonna be probably
one of the best days of our lives so we've done a lot of research about retirement home
retirement parks like sanctuaries all that so we don't want to go somewhere where they don't treat
the elephants really well we've done a lot of like reviews check the reviews and everything and this
one looks really really good everyone seems like really positive apparently the people are really
nice so we're gonna try it out and we'll let you know how we think it is we're gonna head about an
hour's journey out of chiang mai because it's in like the jungle hill area and and yeah so let's go
so we're about to go on a three kilometer walk with the elephants
around this place so let's go elephant in the wild hey got some sugar cane here for you
do you like sugar okay yeah there you go let's feed the elephant want some sugar cane buddy
it feels it does feel like almost i feel like a dinosaur what dinosaur would feel
like well this one was born in 1987. yeah this is quite she's quite an old girl
you're a bit dirty
look at this one just in the jungle that's so cool it's just like had
enough of our bananas and sugarcane has just gone for the bamboo whoa oh my word
they're so strong aren't they such strong animals
she keeps throwing mud over herself doesn't she yeah
she does you're gonna eat that i'm not gonna give you more to your eating
crunchy yeah this is where we start to panic isn't it
this elephant obviously takes a lot longer to
walk whereas this one's like bouncing up the hill like me
you love bambi oh
are you okay
the elephant just fell over i've got sugar cane
i think they prefer bananas to sugarcane yeah they love it oh yeah pop that right in
i've got one i've got one more banana i'm sorry i don't have any bananas
banana here you go oh you're very a little bit dirty maybe you need to go in the river
elephant poop look at the size of that it's bigger than my feet
nice i didn't actually touch it by the way so now we are going to go into the
river and basically bathe them in mud and go in the water it's going to be so cool
so we're about to see a male elephant with the tusks but apparently it is still safe even
though sometimes if they're with a female they might get a little bit aggressive to the meal
whoa the toast looks so cool hello mr elephant
the baby loves to play
coming in
this is terrifying oh that's so cool
it does drown in
no they like it
elephant done
that's so cool they're itching themselves on each other
oh
oh so what an experi i wasn't sure what it was going to be like because i was worried about you
know whether how they treated the elephants but it was honestly amazing the people who work there
love what they do they loved looking after the elephants you could see how happy the elephants
were as well literally after we um finished like our thing and we were just having some lunch there
i literally saw one of the guys rolling around with the baby elephant so that was pretty cool
he obviously loved them a lot they just you can tell the elephants are happy as well
they do this little thing with their ears when they flap them apparently that means they're
happy and they were doing that a lot so yeah and one of the big things i wanted to ask is where
the elephants came from like were they breeding them for this specific thing but actually so the
elephants are basically rescued their retirement park rescued from circuses from elephant riding
because that is actually still legal in thailand because it actually gives them um a lot of money
to the government and so they don't want to ban it because it brings in a lot like asian tourists and
stuff so they're basically over covered there was no tourists so this park actually rescued a lot of
elephants from these circuses and elephant riding and that's where the baby was actually bred so
he wasn't bred on the retirement home so they're not actually breeding them there
no they basically rescue them and then look after them that's partly why they're so tame because
they did do circuses but yeah it was very cold they didn't want to like force the elephants to
go in the water because they might not want to so they literally let the elephants do what they want
yeah and at night they are in a small enclosure as you probably saw but that is needed because
otherwise at night they'll just wander off to the farms eat all this food with the chemicals in and
basically that can really harm the elephants and overall it was such an amazing experience
the money you paid to go there it helps feed the elephants because it costs a thousand bar a day
to feed each individual elephant and on like all the hospital fees all that kind of stuff
um yeah if you wanna visit the elephant retirement park i'll leave a link in the description and
you can go click that thank you for watching this video and we will see you in the next one
where i'm not sure what we'll be doing but somewhere in north thailand so yeah see you then