This place is located in Thung Kwian forest park in Hang Chat district, about 32 km. from town on the route to Chiang Mai. It is the only facility in the world devoted to the raining of elephants for timber work using these pachyderms as labor. There are performances and training demonstrated. The centre provides health care for elephants.
The Khantok Chang Fair is organised on the first Friday-Saturday period of February each year at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center. There is an elephant show and the pachyderms are feasted with their popular fruits and vegatables which are placed on the Tok, a traditional food tray of the Lanna people.
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