Bathing With Elephants
Trip Start
Jul 25, 2006
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Trip End
Ongoing
Chitwan National Park,
Nepal
Saturday, June 14, 2008
So I did, along with another woman and man. It was that kind of party, it was that kind of day. It was bath time.
I never did get her name, but as we crawled on her back, and with a touch from the man in front of me, she started to move. It was a big back. She was a big girl.
Out in the water we all waded, I held onto the leathery skin of her back for all I was worth. (She was a big leathery skinned girl). Earlier I had seen a man hold onto her ears, and walk up her front and onto her back. (She was a big, leathery skinned, big eared girl.) Suddenly, she blew water all over me from her nose, soaking me from head to foot. (She a big, leathery skinned, big eared, HUGE nosed girl). Suddenly it seemed she tired of our presence and rolled over, throwing me and the other girl flying into the water.
Sputtering we climbed back onto her back, to have her throw us again and again back into the fast flowing river. She might not have been pretty in a conventional sense, but she made it clear, this was her home, and we were in her bathtub.
Bathing with Elephants - now playing at Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
