{"id":16558,"date":"2014-01-31T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/anantaras-kings-cup-elephant-polo-tournament-packs-its-trunk-and-moves-to-bangkok\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T07:37:00","slug":"anantaras-kings-cup-elephant-polo-tournament-packs-its-trunk-and-moves-to-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/01\/anantaras-kings-cup-elephant-polo-tournament-packs-its-trunk-and-moves-to-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Anantara&#8217;s King&#8217;s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament Packs its Trunk and Moves to Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"unnamed (14)\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unnamed-1412-300x198.jpg\" height=\"158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unnamed-1412-300x198.jpg\" width=\"240\"><span><span>That\u2019s right everyone, the King\u2019s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament is packing its trunk and moving to Bangkok!<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span>Our hugely successful charity event is now entering its thirteenth year and due to the popularity of the event we are moving it from its original home of Hua Hin to the Thai capital. Many of you already know that it\u2019s a very unique event which attracts people and teams from all over the world including New Zealand All Black rugby players, professional polo players, Thai supermodels, Miss Tiffany\u2019s transgender performers and European royalty. Although the teams are vying for the coveted King\u2019s Cup trophy, the ultimate aim is to raise awareness and money to better the lives of wild and domesticated elephants throughout Thailand.\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"unnamed (15)\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unnamed-1511-300x163.jpg\" height=\"163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unnamed-1511-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\">\n<\/div>\n<div><span>To date the event has raised over US$750,000 which has gone to various organisations helping elephants and this year we are hoping to raise a lot more. The event also allows us to take 50 street elephants away from their often harsh environment and provide them with a jungle like setting, proper food, vitamins and full veterinary care which they otherwise don\u2019t normally get.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>The release can be found in this link:\u00a0<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/anantara.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=606ea728c2eddd884f5b56145&#038;id=dde7aed981&#038;e=ce89544b2a\" href=\"http:\/\/anantara.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=606ea728c2eddd884f5b56145&#038;id=dde7aed981&#038;e=ce89544b2a\" target=\"_blank\">Anantara&#8217;s King&#8217;s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament Packs its Trunk and Moves to Bangkok<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>So mark the dates in your diary \u2013\u00a0<b>August 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to 31<sup>st<\/sup><\/b>\u00a0\u2013 and we hope to see you in Bangkok then!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"unnamed (16)\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unnamed-1611-300x199.jpg\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unnamed-1611-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s right everyone, the King\u2019s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament is packing its trunk and moving to Bangkok! Our hugely successful charity event is now entering its thirteenth year and due to the popularity of the event we are moving it from its original home of Hua Hin to the Thai capital. Many of you already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anantara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}