You start your day along the Mae Rim- Samoeng route - inside the Mae Sa Valley - with a visit to the Pong Yang Elephant Training Centre -30 kms from town, where elephants demonstrate their formidable and highly valued forestry skills.

Visitors can watch elephants bathing, dragging logs and performing other feats.

Back on the road, you head for the Mae Sa Waterfalls, a eight level waterfall which occupies a tranquil setting amid gigantic trees.

Your next attraction is the Mae Sa Butterfly Farm where a large variety of beautiful butterflies are raised in a spacious garden. The farm gift shop sells framed butterfly specimens, a wide variety continuously blooming orchids and jewellery (cf.Shopping Tour) made from fresh flowers electroplated in gold.

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