Chiang Mai Zoo

This guide to Chiang Mai Zoo starts with Harold Young, a jungle-survival trainer who taught border police at the foot of Doi Suthep in the 1950s while secretly running a covert network under cover as a bug collector. You'll hear how his backyard collection of injured animals grew large enough that he opened it to the public in 1957, and who kept it running until his death in 1975. It traces how the provincial government later expanded that menagerie into the two-hundred-acre zoo you're standing in now.