Chiang Mai Night Safari
Nocturnal zoo safari with tram tours past big cats, elephants and rare white tigers after dark.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Chiang Mai Night Safari traces its start as a prime minister's ambition to outdo Singapore's famous nocturnal zoo, approved in 2002 and opened barely three years later on the slopes below Doi Suthep. It follows how quickly the park grew, more than four hundred animals across fifty species, and what that speed left behind: wildlife monitors documenting inbred tigers and bare enclosures alongside the park's newer, more open zones. Listen for how the tram's lit path reveals both versions of the same place.
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