Tourists woke up to elephants at their balconies - before giving them fresh bananas for breakfast.

A couple was watching the sunrise shining through the glass doors when they heard the trumpeting noise outside in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on January 10.

Footage shows a mother elephant and baby walking outside on the grassy lawn between the cottages at the Tawan Riverside Elephant Resort.

The holidaymakers greeted the jumbos reaching their trunks into the balcony before giving the animals organic bananas for their breakfast.

Amazed tourist Marius Sukys, who fed the jumbos before drinking his own morning coffee, said: ‘The elephants made their rounds to wake us all up. It was amazing to be close to elephants, a very memorable experience.'

The resort is found along the Mae Wang river in the far north of the country. The elephants walk freely among the bungalow huts used by visitors but they are not wild jumbos, like those seen in the forests of Thailand.

Thailand has an estimated 2,000 Asian elephants living in the wild - down from 100,000 a century ago - and around 3,000 in captivity owned privately. In the wild they are seen wandering freely among protected forests, occasionally appearing on the roads that run through them.