travel airline reservations 23/01/2010Northern Thailand. Rodina White ElephantElephants - not only

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23/03/2010

Northern Thailand. Rodina White Elephant

Elephants - not only workers, but also sacred animals in

: Here believe that Buddhist temples were erected in those places where the elephants carrying the relics of the Buddha, stayed at the camp. Until now, festive parades and celebrations do not get along without the elephants. A special tribute rare albino elephants, and the highest award of the Kingdom is "Order of the White Elephant." In 1891 Rama V granted it to Nicholas Romanov during the visit of the Crown Prince was still in Bangkok, marking the beginning of friendly relations between Russia and Thailand.

In the jungles of Northern Thailand elephants regularly serve the heavy work of carrying heavy loads, and in Maetaman Elefant Camp near Chiang Mai forest giants entertain tourists. To start indicate the extent to which well-behaved can be a powerful beast: and they dance to the music, and even the trunk and paint brush self-portraits, it is recognizable. Then, with a high tourist area on the two seated on the seat, reinforced on the backs of animals, and they start out on easy trail. First, forcing fording a river, then the trail picks up sharply on the hill top, overcoming the streams, ditches and other obstacles, but then again, the caravan crosses the river, and we are grafted into the wagon, pulled by oxen humped zebu. Wooden rim and the lack of spring force with a longing recall elephants. But after all the land of adventure we have a bonus in the form of a bamboo raft on which we are guided by experienced helmsmen raft along the river itself, which turns out to be, you can enter not only twice but thrice.

Northern Thailand - the land of folk crafts and arts, so you can witness the production of silk, and at all stages of development and production of traditional paper umbrellas and fans, and a facet of local sapphires, which, of course, you can buy here in the form of rings or earrings.

Chiang Mai - the main city of northern Thailand, the former capital of Lanna, the edge of virgin jungle, leaving the borders of Burma and Laos, where the hill tribes live with their traditions and customs. This is the tourist zone city of Chiang Rai, where tourism becomes a cognitive map for particularly curious and interested in ethnography. But this is a topic for a separate reporting. About the country of the White Elephant wants to talk endlessly.

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