I completely agree that food can be life changing (I am, admittedly, a major foodie). I also have traveled (both luxuriously and non) my entire life - and I think my visit to the FS Tented Camp a couple of years ago was a life-changing experience. The amazingly cool Thai people I met, the outstanding service and seclusion (this was a visit with no children there, luckily) and most of all, for me, the opportunity to interact every day with the elephants - it was an ideal trip. Every photo of me while there has a huge smile - a week of smiling big all day every day was life-changing...