Elephant Sanctuary Visit
Elephant Jungle Sanctuary is an ethical and sustainable ecotourism project. They have eight locations in the province of Chiang Mai and one in Phuket. We visited Camp 1 located about 1.5 hours from our house. There were at least a couple dozen elephants and we got to feed them bananas and bamboo, make and feed them medicine balls, give one elephant a wellness check, and then bathed some.
bananas and sugar cane for our friends
sisterly love
buffet lunch
grinding the raw brown rice
mashing the bananas for the medicine balls
mixing in the tree bark, soaked white rice and milled brown rice with the bananas
making the medicine balls
scrubbing with brushes
ready with the medicine balls!
before jumping in the mud hole
Happy St.Patrick's/Elephant Day everyone!
post mud bath
washing off the mud in the river
one of the younger elephants washing the mud off himself
What an amazing experience! Great photos. Thank you.
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