After a fun and fairly restless night of sleep ont he train, we found our way to
Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. Once we dropped our luggage at the hotel, our first stop was...the elephant conservatory!
We arrived just in time to watch the elephants take a bath, then see the demonstration on how they were used in logging. As soon as that finished, we booked it over to the "loading dock" to ride our very own elephants. It was fun to say the least, as well as a little hairy going downhill since we weren't harnessed to our seats and could have easily fallen off had we not employed the death grip. Good times indeed!
ONce we finished our rides, we thanked our elephants by feeding them sugar cane. One elephant was a bit greedy. He blocked the other elephants and took all of the sugar cane. What he couldn't fit into his mouth, he just held in his trunk. Who knew there were lunchroom bullies in the elephant world too!
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