Elephant day

Day 8 - the elephant day!! Woke up at 8am again this morning. I had mixed friut + honey + yogurt + museli <- not sure about spelling. very healthy n refreshing :D

Our elephant tour started at 130pm, which included 30 mins sitting on the bench of the back of the elephants n 20 mins ridding on the elephants bare back + bathing them in the river. The elephant i was riddng was called Bouham, a 25 yr old female elephant. She was super obedient n pretty big. The weather was good, not too sunny n didn't rain. walking thru the jungle was a pleasant ride.

The fun part was riddng bare back back to the river n bath them. Most of the time the elephants were sitting on the river, but everytime when the trainers said some Laos instruction (not sure is Laosian or some secret codes, i couldn't understand anyway...) they dived their heads into the water. Suddenly wer became riding a submarine n diappeared above water with them. Remind you that the elephants also poo in this river as well. In fact, there were poo floating on the river as one of the big fellars jus finished his business.

The elephants were clean after a day's work but we were dead muddy. It was awesome fun thou. must try it when you have the chance :)