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Spend the Night with 2 Elephants in a 2-Bedroom Bubble Tent in the Jungle

I AM PRETTY SPOILED as far as elephants go. Living in Thailand for nearly a decade, I’ve gotten to spend a lot of time up-close-and-personal with them – almost always in responsible rescue camps where you can have meaningful, cruelty-free interactions with them and learn lots about what’s happening in their big brains along the

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Review: The Standard, Hua Hin

THE STANDARD, HOLLYWOOD OPENED on the Sunset Strip back in 1999, a renovated 60s motel that was instantly a playground of glitterati. The uber-hip hotel company has grown, gone global and changed hands in the intervening years but in the newest Standard, their debut in Thailand, you can see a direct throughline from founder Andre

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