WW: Mae Sa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand
The most enchanting experience at Mae Sa Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is being able to interact with the elephants.
You can buy bunches of bananas or sugar cane to feed to the elephants. It only costs about fifty cents per bunch.
It is impossible not to smile (and feel a little nervous) with an elephant trunk around your shoulders.
It is an enormous muscle with bristles on it. Not to mention this one was pretty much giving me a wet willie in my ear.
The “hat trick” is fun. The elephant puts his trainer’s hat on your head:
Then he taps the hat gently with his trunk before removing it again!
I will never forget it! I already want to go back.
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28 January 2009, 10:20 am
It looks like so much fun! Thank you for answering my question from yesterday. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I could see elephants painting–it was just the detail that astonished me. And the self-portrait.
28 January 2009, 1:55 pm
Wow, great shots! I love the one of you and the kids looking at you while the elephant gets friendly!
28 January 2009, 3:55 pm
It looks as though everyone is having a wonderful time! I want to go.
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28 January 2009, 6:31 pm
My son just saw these pictures and he was SO excited about the elephants. He wants to touch an elephant! I love the hat pictures.
28 January 2009, 6:57 pm
Oh you are sooooo lucky! Elephants are my favorite animals, and i wish I could go there. I was so impressed with the paintings they made in the last post…did they honestly do them from start to finish?
I just want to hug those sweet creatures.
28 January 2009, 9:30 pm
This looks like such an amazing experience. I love all the things about the east that you share with us!
28 January 2009, 11:24 pm
Wow, those are neat pics. What an experience that would be.
29 January 2009, 2:58 am
Oh, wow! I want to do that with the kids!!!
29 January 2009, 4:49 am
How neat! What a great experience.
02 February 2009, 4:14 pm
I went to this camp last May and it was one of the highlights of my trip! I loved it! Ok so I have a question that is completely unrelated, but do you know how to make Rotees or Roties? We got some from the street vendors while we were in Thailand and I can’t find the right dough recipe to make them ourselves. I’m craving them!!:)
18 March 2009, 2:43 pm
Those are some great pictures - I am happy you had fun up there. Chiang Mai is so much cooler than down here in Phuket.
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