northern thailand

Welcome to this week’s episode of Low Season Traveller Insider Guides, the podcast where we speak to the locals to learn what the experience is like for travellers during the low season months in their destination.

I’m Ged Brown your host for this week’s episode and today we return to Northern Thailand where Nikki Morrison has been on location near the Myanmar border.

As regular listeners will know, we’ve been working with Nikki Morrison as she travels the world during the low seasons to help Low Season Traveller in our mission to draw more attention to the challenges of overtourism and seasonality whilst extolling the virtues of low season travel.

Nikki met up with Sarah Blaine whilst on her journey through Northern Thailand recently to learn more about her work with the elephant mahouts.

The Mahouts Elephant Foundation is a unique organisation in Thailand working to re-wild captive elephants and allow them to return to the cloud forest along the northern Myanmar border. It is only possible with the support of the elephant owners and mahouts who in the past would have had few options but to sell elephants into the tourist trade. Tourism is still vital to the success of this project, and by visiting the village as a guest of the Karan tribes who live there you both help to sustain a way of life and liberate elephants who have lived captive lives, in some cases for decades. Sarah is the woman behind the idea, and she invited Nikki to experience it for herself as part of her Low Season Adventure.

And you can learn more about Chiang Mai and what it’s like during it’s low season months here.

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We have been working with Nikki Morrison as she travels the world during the low seasons to help Low Season Traveller in our mission to draw more attention to the issues of overtourism and seasonality whilst extolling the virtues of low season travel.

Nikki met up with John Borthwick whilst on her journey through Northern Thailand recently.

John Borthwick is one of Australia’s leading travel writers, his work is published by leading newspapers around the world and his photos have graced the covers of no fewer than five editions of the Lonely Planet.  He has been Australian Travel Writer of the Year and awarded the Pacific Asia Travel Association Gold Award. When he turned out to be sharing Nikki Morrison's Low Season Adventure with the Tuk Tuk Club in Northern Thailand she couldn't have been more delighted. In her own words, it was her first rodeo and John, as you will hear has five decades of experience to share. 

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And you can learn more about Chiang Mai and what it’s like during it’s low season months here.

But That’s our show for this week. Thanks as always, for your company, and if you enjoyed this podcast, please do leave us a positive rating and a review on your podcast app – it really helps…and also please do follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn so you’ll be the first to hear our latest low season stories, articles and guides.

Have a great week and remember that travel is always better and fairer for the planet, the local communities and you the travellers, when it’s without the crowds…

Today we head over to Northern Thailand.

Our regular listeners will know that we have been collaborating with former BBC journalist, Nikki, as she travels around the world during the low season months in each destination.  She is currently in Thailand where she met up with Bruce Haxton from the Tuk Tuk Club as she joined their 10 day adventure.

Here she speaks with Bruce as the tour came to it’s conclusion.

And if you like the sound of Northern Thailand you can learn more about the region and what it’s like during it’s low season months on https://lowseasontraveller.com/destination/chiang-mai/ and thetuktukclub.com to book your place....