Growth, ponderings and adventures
If you haven't read the first part of my trip, you can find it here! Day 6: Elephant sanctuary On Saturday, I had booked a visit to an elephant sanctuary. There are a ton of those around Chiang Mai, and it is a whole business. I won't linger too long on this as I wrote [...]
In the area around Chiang Mai, there are quite a lot of elephant sanctuaries with elephants saved from exploitation for tourism, farming or other. They claim themselves to be ethical and use that in their advertisement. Unfortunately, I don't believe that all of them are as good as they say they are, and it is [...]
18.3.19, 1am. Day 1: The departure. A new kind of adventure starts. I'm on the plane, ready to take off from the slushy Helsinki airport for 7 weeks of solo travel in Southeast Asia. I've traveled quite a lot and backpacked in Southeast Asia before as well, but this trip is different from anything I've [...]
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