During night hours, mahouts (trainers) with lumbering elephants approach tourists to feed the creatures bananas or take a photo with them for a fee. A depressingly common sight on the congested streets of Bangkok and other tourist centers …

Now we just have to get over our jetlag! All in all a very memorable trip & I'm sure we'll book another Gate 1 tour in the future. The hotels & meals were excellent, too!Our tour guide, Panya, was very knowledgeable & took very good care o…