2 Elephants At Night Safari Die

[siam-i-am]

Its such a shame and so very sad, I visited there once and although on the surface it looked good, after I took a closer look you got the sense that they were not sure how to take care of all there various animals, and thought something would eventually happen, such a shame poor animals, but must admit chiang Mai zoo was alot worst, when I went there, I saw dead snakes still in there enclosures, I could take another visit.

I heard about that keeper said he accidentally bit his own tongue. Or was it suicide? We will never know.

[southerndog]

I was just up at the night safari, I didn't actually go on the tour or whatever, just kind of kicked around the grounds. From what I saw of it, it was quite beautiful grounds. It seems to me, as another poster has mentioned, that it would be a nice place for an amusement park. I think it would be nice if they could do both, have the night safari/zoo thing AND have some amusement rides. Roller coaster, water park, etc. I think it'd be great.

I was the one who first mentioned the casino idea and I think its a decent possibility. I think it would make sense for chiang mai to give it a try for something like 7 years or something. Seems like the infrastructure could with stand it, and it obv. bring in a lot of tourists.

[Nienke]

roller coaster and waterpark right next to the (wild) animals? Doesn't sound nice to me ....

Nienke

[Johpa]

roller coaster and waterpark right next to the (wild) animals? Doesn't sound nice to me ....

Nienke

A great idea, especially one of those newer roller coasters...just imagine... upside down over the lions den....the big felines jumping up at you.....and then combine it with a casino...better than Vegas!

[Nienke]

A great idea, especially one of those newer roller coasters...just imagine... upside down over the lions den....the big felines jumping up at you.....and then combine it with a casino...better than Vegas!

Well, there you go! Back to nature: catch your own food with breath-taking russian roulette. Great fun for 'all' guaranteed

[Ricardo]

The som-tam lady allegedly told me, the original Plop-Plop Plan was for the Flower-Show land, having been taken out of the national-park & improved with full ameneties & access-roads at public expense, to then be turned into some sort of super-mooban for Elite-Card holders & other friends of DL. Also for a Thai theme-park on the site.

One can only imagine the brown-envelopes this might have generated, but can see why the new government might now find it embarrassing, to allow to continue just yet.

The Flower-Show surely generated some 3.8 million visitors, instead of the 2.0 million originally envisaged, that's the sort of 'flop' to have more of !

Meanwhile I personally feel that Chiang-Mai already had enough elephant-camps, and that the Night-Safari all-you-can-eat Project was pork-barrel from the start. But what else can be built, to support the 'green/natural' tourist-destination image, that CM seems to have ?

[lannarebirth]

Another idea might be to turn the whole grounds into a "living history museum" of either Thai or Lanna history/culture. Maybe along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in America. It would provide a lot of jobs and I think it might draw both domestic and foreign tourists.

http://www.williamsburg.com/index.cfm?newU...subcategoryID=2

[tijnebijn]

Another idea might be to turn the whole grounds into a "living history museum" of either Thai or Lanna history/culture. Maybe along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in America. It would provide a lot of jobs and I think it might draw both domestic and foreign tourists.

http://www.williamsburg.com/index.cfm?newU...subcategoryID=2

Much better then the idea of a casino .....

Why want that in Lanna ?

[Johpa]

Another idea might be to turn the whole grounds into a "living history museum" of either Thai or Lanna history/culture. Maybe along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in America. It would provide a lot of jobs and I think it might draw both domestic and foreign tourists.

My friends manage a much smaller but similar type of "musuem" for highland people's cultures and they only get grief from the authorities and from the media.

[Ulysses G.]

Another idea might be to turn the whole grounds into a "living history museum" of either Thai or Lanna history/culture. Maybe along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in America. It would provide a lot of jobs and I think it might draw both domestic and foreign tourists.

My friends manage a much smaller but similar type of "musuem" for highland people's cultures and they only get grief from the authorities and from the media.

Do they let guests smoke opium as part of hilltribe exhibit?

That used to be the climax of the opium museum tour on Doi Suthep many years ago.

[Johpa]

Another idea might be to turn the whole grounds into a "living history museum" of either Thai or Lanna history/culture. Maybe along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in America. It would provide a lot of jobs and I think it might draw both domestic and foreign tourists.

My friends manage a much smaller but similar type of "musuem" for highland people's cultures and they only get grief from the authorities and from the media.

Do they let guests smoke opium as part of hilltribe exhibit?

That used to be the climax of the opium museum tour on Doi Suthep many years ago.

Alas, today is not like yesterday when tourists would be given the scrapings off the inside of the local opium addicts pipe mixed with aspirin, and sold by the pipe load with some tourists then bragging about taking a dozen hits.

It is a squeaky clean spot along the Mae Sa Valley tourist circuit with examples of traditional highland architecture not so easily found anymore, with minority men and women dressed traditionally in outfits also not so commonly seen anymore outside of significant days like holdays and weddings. The establishment gets heat from others because it also includes a "long neck" family or two. Funny how people will react to having Padaung folks in such a tourist camp but not raise an eyebrow over S'kaw Karen, Lahu, or other minorities. For some reason there is a far, far louder public outcry over a dozen people at this establishment being treated decently as opposed to the thousands of Burmese refugees being treated like dogs as domestic servants of the Thai nouveau upper-middle class.

I was just piqued by the comparison between other historical "living museums" and this village which is similar in that it displays a similarly sanitized version of a lifestyle that really no longer exists. The difference is that of a display of a bygone era two hundred years ago vs a display of a bygone era of only twenty-five years ago.

[Nienke]

Where is this village exactly? Could you give directions, please? What is it called?

Nienke

[Crow Boy]

Another idea might be to turn the whole grounds into a "living history museum" of either Thai or Lanna history/culture. Maybe along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in America. It would provide a lot of jobs and I think it might draw both domestic and foreign tourists.

That may be a winning idea, especially when you realise that the local lanna costume for women is or rather was at the time topless with just a shawl over the shoulder. Unmarried girls didn't wear any top at all - advertising at its most basic. Wonder where they could find suitable young women in Chiang Mai to take on the part of tour guides to "Lanna Land" or is that "la la land"?

CB

[Johpa]

Where is this village exactly? Could you give directions, please? What is it called?

Nienke

It is Ban Tong Luang, a left turn into a smaller soi before you reach the Mae Sa Elephant camp.

[Nienke]

Thanks Johpa. My mom and sister are coming and they for sure would like to visit this village. And so do I

Nienke