<span class=normal> The highlight of our Chiang Mai trip however was the Maesa Elephant show. We may have seen elephants playing football and polo in the past but the elephants here actually paint fabulous and colourful paintings. Its an amazing sight! The cutest part is when the elephant takes a bow once his painting is complete and with his trunk lifts his paint pot and walks off. The paintings actually sell for between 3000 to 30000 baht. Apart from that, the elephants have such a brilliant sense of humour and even cheat while playing games. I was actually challenged to a game of darts. We had to burst balloons by throwing the darts from a distance and when I beat the elephant, he came, patted me on my head and then promptly burst all the balloons with his trunk. It was so cute! <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p><amp-img width=1.33 height=1 layout=responsive src=https://images.bollywoodhungama.com/img/feature/10/jul/sophie31.jpg></amp-img><BR><br><p>&nbsp;</p></span>