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| Pink Elephants on Parade |
| 04.10.04 (4:26 am) [edit] |
Preparing for hardcore travels....
CHANG MAI, Northern Thailand
March 14th-23rd
Asia has also brought me closer to some beautiful nature AND
I have been spending time with animals and I love it.
ONE DAY :
In Chang Mai I also went to an Elephant Training School an hour outside of the city and spent time with the elephants AGAIN! This time they were treated a little better. I hung out with and fed babies and preganant ones- all aged elephants. I fed them sugar cane and bananas. They bathed in the lake and put on a little show.
The pregnant ma was having her first baby. They usually have 5 in their lives, 100kg at birth!- she was sweet. The Mahout tribe men get one elephant to watch for their whole life and they become really close! You should've seen how the elephant played with and loved up her trainer.
The Royal Elephants of Thailand- the King's Elephants are kept at this location- but noone can see them- They are strictly for the king- He gets the pink ones with white hairs!! ( no i didn't see them on parade unfortunately...)
I saw how they made paper from elephant shit- crazy! and how they make fuel from it as well.
I am so happy that I got to spend time with them again. In Krabi when Amanda and I rode them- i knew that they were being used and possibly abused. Here I felt that they were healthy and treated fairly. ..
There were also sick elephants here too because this place had a hospital. Some of the elephants had their feet blown up by landmines on the Burmese border planted by the good old USA. real nice huh? Such sadness! The things we do to others and no one knows, because they don't teach us the truth of what Americans do to others. The elephants were angry and I couldn't get close to the sick ones. Some had skin diseases. One baby fell down the mountain.
My favorite was baby sunshine and her ma moonshine. You'll see the pics soon enough...
Chang Mai was great. We had some AWESOME Mexican food and BAGELS!! Oh how we miss the little things!! Like GINGER ALE!! ahh! I miss it! I'll make the miss list soon! Its pretty damn long! Back to why Chang Mai was great-I chilled with monkeys and elephants. Did my Reiki course and learned how to energy heal and channel. Learned how to cook delicious Thai food. Visited some great wats. Spoke with some monks. Shopped for some awesome art work- such beautiful treasures!! All of it. Getting ready for the hardcore- as we have heard things are not as organized in Laos, and Cambodia even less....and soooo
here we come!
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posted by: Magoo (reply)
post date: 04.10.04 (5:52 am)
Interesting read, I am a lover of Elephants and I found myself collection them at a younger age. I am a proud owner of some 500 plus elephants in every everything possible I think, jewellery and now I have started with the stuffed ones. They are everywhere in my house. They are a wonderful animal, and should be protected. There is a few Elephant sanctuarys around, my hope is to get to one of them before I die.
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