Elephants

Today we went to the elephant nature park. The shuttle picked us up around 8:00 from the hotel for the 90 minute drive. We stopped at the market to pick up the elephants bananas, watermelon and pumpkin.

At the park we fed the elephants and then we got in the river and bathed them. It was quite fun to interact directly with the giant animals. The kids were very apprehensive at the start but as the day wore on the became more comfortable around the elephants. There were 2 baby elephants there. Watching these baby elephants stumble around was quite amusing.

The neat part about this park is that all of the elephants have been rescued from logging camps, street begging, circuses, smugglers and various other abusive work. The park is also trying to bring awareness to the brutality that a lot of the elephants endure to become tame.

There should be some pictures up of us at the park. Just use the pictures link on the right hand side to see them.