Elephants ages 3mo. to 89yr.

We'll have a hard time beating the elephant kraal in Ayutthaya, It seemed a surprise to the very butch volunteer elephant keeper Eva that we found the place at all. In truth if you mention Elephant to any tuk tuk driver in those parts as we did, they quickly usher you to some sort of roadside elephant tour...hmmm chained baby elephants. We were not impressed, we can go shriner at home if we want that.
But the Kraal...UNBELIEVABLE. They house 80 elephants there and throught the tutelage and very kind guidance of Eva we were ushered to the Oliver stone wall (of shame if you ever saw Alexander, I did not, but we met the stars just the same) and off to meet the oldest and youngest habitants of the litter.
We met 89 year old Dokma, and got a good rub of her snout...and then to the 3 month old, whose name never really stuck (it was in thai after all) I don't know about you gang but I have never touched an elephant let alone feed one, and play with it's baby. Great pictures to follow.
Brant and I agree if something beats the elephant petting zoo (and something prolly will) we will be sure to exclaim some crazy codeword...(word has yet to formalize.)
Now we're in Sukkotthai...half way between Bangkok and Chiang Mai...the illness has all but dissappeared which was by the grace of god after 6 hours on a 2nd class bus today with babys asleep on my lap...


well that was sincere enough wasn't it/bUn.
your turn Brant.
- posted by Combine Harvester @ 4:27 AM