We've been to the Night Safari in Chiang Mai as well. Truthfully, both were kind of underwhelming. The idea behind the Night Safari sounds great. You can see the animals at night when they are most active. The problem is that you spend most of the time on a tram driving by the exhibits at five to ten miles per hour.
Yes, I know that you can walk around and see some animals. The coolest of these was the flying squirrels, which would occassionally launch themselves from tree to tree over our heads. That was one of the two highlights of the trip.
The other highlight was the Night Safari's animal show. The show itself wasn't that spectacular, but what made it so much fun was that Aleena was picked out of the audience to participate. They were looking for a four or five year old child volunteer. After the first "volunteer" was too afraid to go on stage, we made a bunch of noise and they picked Aleena.
She was a bit nervous at first, but Nalin held her hand and walked her to the stage. Nalin then went back to her seat, and Aleena became a "star". Aleena started off by pulling her dress up to her face, to which the trained explained that it was a family show. It was cute. Aleena then held a grape in one of her two closed hands and an animal picked the correct hand by its sense of smell.
We were very proud of her. She is often reluctant to do things on her own, while she is very "brave" when she is around her sister or brother. This was all her. She received a coupon for Ben & Jerry's for her role in the show.
I took some pictures of her, but the lighting conditions were hardly ideal. The stage was lit, but not well, and flash photography was prohibited. I used my 70-200 lens, which is very fast and wide. Here are a few of the shots that I took.
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