They may eat happily out of your hands at breakfast if they choose: gentle, inquisitive trunks hoovering bananas from your palm, sweet faces innocently awaiting the next morsel. But here at Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, hidden away in Thailand’s hilly northernmost province of Chiang Rai, the resident elephants can also behave like a pack of naughty teens breaking out of boarding school for laughs.
National borders are plentiful in this wildly beautiful region, where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar converge at the confluence of the rivers Ruak and Mekong. But they mean nothing to the elephants – rescued from city streets and tourist traps in partnership with not-for-profit The Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, which ensures the welfare
