How amazing is this???? After trekking through the jungle, we spent the night at the elephant camp, only to wake up to these gentle giants taking a bath! We rode our elephant Buka for about an hour. Here I am relaxing in the seat, but it is so cool to ride on the head of the elephant - you can really feel the power and stability in the shoulders, although, as Michelle says, a bit of an inner thigh workout!! There was a shack up in the trees where you could purchase a bunch of bananas to feed them. So, while sitting on the head, a very curious trunk would point towards you, searching for food. We would place the bananas in the snout of the trunk and the happy elephant would continue on. They even let out a deafening trumpet for us - unbelieveably loud! We got to hang out for some time with them afterwards, feeding and touching the trunks. A very memorable experience!
After the ride, we were swept away downstream on a whitewater raft with no real instruction (typical Thailand). Then it was on a rickety bamboo raft that could barely hold our weight, so we tried to tip the thing and had a blast trying to unload our guide. Good times! *Stub
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