Pralom'S House Phetchaburi

122/1 Tambol Haad Chao Samran, Amphur Muang Phetchaburi, Thailand

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Taking an elephant for a walk

A travel blog entry by joebella44

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... visit these other elephant camps and parks and contribute money towards the mistreatment of these animals, just for the prize of the picture of them on top of an elephant. I would really urge anyone who reads this to go visit Wildlife Friends of Thailand (http://www.wfft.org) if they're in the area - it's a great experience and they could really do with donations and money from visitors to help them continue what they're doing. The centre doesn't receive any ...

Elephant Rescue

A travel blog entry by nickfrost

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... cleaned up the dung and plant feed from the pen. We then headed for breakfast at 8am and back to work at 9 to cut upa nd peel fruit for the elephants before taking them for a walk, treating them to bananas along the way. We continued the day watching the elephants being treated by the vets, cleaning them and feeding them. Then around 4ish Carol Buckley, a famous elephant rescuer came to the centre to try and train the mahoots ...

Bear Necessities

A travel blog entry by straybuttons

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... getting up at 5.45 and being at the food house for 6am to start preparing the food. Tomorrow is our worst day yet volunteer wise, so there are two of us covering the bears jobs, instead of the usual two or three on each. It's a lot of work but it needs to be done and as long as everybody pulls their weight (which has been a slight problem lately) it can run pretty smoothly. Of course then you'll end up spending half an hour trying to coax OomPoom the sun bear into his ...

Last beach...

A travel blog entry by thailand_dream

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... a car stops and 2 small girls and their mum get out and say "hello, hello, where you go?" So i told them and they gave me a lift in the car and were very helpful and nice people and learnt a little more thai and taught them a little english in the short time we were together. Now that's a good example of thai hospitality that would never happen back home.

Anyway, it all worked out well in the end (as it always does) Got to my guest house and got ...

Oo, oooo, woooooo

A travel blog entry by stilllooking

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... 12.00 noon Lunch
1.00pm Catch up on whatever jobs weren't finished - maybe cleaning dishes, making enrichments.
2.15pm Prepare bear food, clean enclosures and feed
3.45pm Prepare nocturnals food, and feed out. This usually finishes about 5.40pm
6.30pm Give a second feed to the binturong.
7.00pm Dinner
Communal duties like dog feeding or kitchen duties get slotted into this as well.
Consequently, I am usually out cold by 9.00pm. That is until the dogs ...

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