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DAY 16 CHIANG MAI Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch This morning travel to Chiang Dao Village where you will visit an elephant working camp and see how the elephants are guided by their mahouts. After the show ride an elephant through the jungle. Visit a Lisu Hilltribe village. The Lisu (Lisaw) like to settle near the tops of mountains, as close as possible to streams or waterfalls. Their houses never have more than one door and are oriented to stand parallel to the face of the mountain on which they live. Each village has a spirit house and each house has a small shrine for the ancestors spirits. In addition, because the Lisu are the "engineers" among the hilltribes, most of their villages feature a large bamboo pipe, a conduit, that carries water from the nearest source to the village. Enjoy bamboo rafting down the Ping River before returning to the hotel. Overnight: The Anantara Chiang Mai – Deluxe Room