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Playing with the Big Gals
Normally I wait until the end of the Notes to answer the trivia, but I'll start with it today. Mom gets 10 points for answering correctly, 10 points for being the only person to try :( , but loses 5 points for excessive information ;). I guess I should have been a little more specific, but the answer I was looking for is Ayutthaya as the previous …
Elephants!
Today has been the best day of our trip so far. We got a tuk tuk this morning from Ayutthaya which is about an hour outside Bangkok (also, great place - we plan to go back there) to Elephant Stay. Its a programme run by two australian women Michelle and Ewa that allows you to stay in a working elephant village and work closely with the retired and …
Pisamy
It is impossible to even know where to start.
From the moment we arrived we knew this was going to be incredible. Neil, Anne and Eliza, the volunteers, met us as we jumped out the car (so enthusiastically we forgot to pay the driver!).We had our induction, which was mostly safety based, but also a bit of history about how the programme came to …
Elephant stay...
So I was looking for stuff to do and chanced upon elephant stay in Ayuthaya. Sunday mailed confirmed in evening arrived 9am Monday morning... Essentially it's a non profit organisation caring for retired elephants... Breeding, caring, training. Even sheltering two killer nellies. One killed 4 people with her tusks, Nellie got mad!!! You are …
Feiern zwischen antiken Tempeln!
... Musik (mit jeder Menge Trommeln). Die Atmosphäre ist magisch. So hätten wir uns das Tempelfest in Luang Prabang eigentlich vorgestellt...
Auch hier (wie im Kino und bei jeder anderen Gelegenheit) wir vor jeder Aufführung noch die Ur-Version des "freeze flash mobs" durchgezogen: die Hymne von Thailand wird abgespielt und dabei unterbricht jeder und jede jegliche Aktivität und steht bewegungslos da - sehr sukril (zumindest ...
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“ Nellie magic ”
Reviewed May 6, 2013
The place is very chilled, the staff are super nice, friendly, and make you feel at home... A brilliant sanctuary, where I learnt to understand the bond between elephants and man.
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“ AMAZING ”
Reviewed Feb 6, 2012
Just the best experience we've ever had :) Extremely well run by Michelle and Ewa, very friendly and inviting and an amazing opportunity to find out more about these beautiful creatures.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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