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Trekking in the Jungle - OMG!
... pleasurable – ha! Ha!
Lovely breakfast of boiled eggs, brown bread and fresh fruit and – yep, you guessed it – the breakfast rat – grilled whole - EEEEEK! Not the best way to start the day!
After breakfast, Ninchi (Sak’s Mummy) prepared our pack-up lunch for the long trek ahead. Veggie noodles wrapped in banana leaves, and fresh watermelon. Today was to be the longest trek – 6 hours ...
I Do Hope We Get A Small Elephant....
... wild. A thing they would love to do but would end swiftly with the elephants death as they have no experience of the wild and if they didn't starve, the farmers, whose crops they would undoubtedly eat, would shoot them.
Anyway, as the minivan ferried us to Baan Chang (about a 50 minute drive away) our guide for the day turns in his seat at the front and addresses the 12 of us. His name is Sumit and he tells us about Baan Chang and the elephants. He runs ...
Welcome to Chiang Mai
... we needed to see, where we should eat, and how we should book tours. He flagged down a tuk tuk driver and told him to take us to the place that would make us the best clothes and the driver was to wait for us and then take us to where we could book our tours.
We have now booked a tour for tomorrow. We will be trekking to waterfalls, riding an elephant, sleeping in a hill tribe ...
Fun in the jungle
... at 8am, and we collected for an hours drive or so out to the Elephant Sanctuary.
Or at least we thought it was an elephant sanctaury, which was part of the reason I had decided to do it. I think the meaning was slightly lost in translation, and that actually it was just elephant riding. But it was in the jungle, and I had already paid, so I left my moral qualms behind and carried on. We were taken straight to our elephants, and climbed a large ...
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk...
... elephants or use any cruel forms of control like the spikey hooked sticks. Instead they are trained through positive reinforcement and each elephant has one ‘mahout’ trainer who stays with them all day to make sure they don’t get into any trouble or cross the river onto the farmers land, and they are directed by a tug on the ear. The elephants are not made to carry us on their backs or paint pictures for us. They are just free to get on with their day, and we get to ...
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