Elephant Trekking

To break up the daily beach or pool routine, we took the girls for an elephant trek which they absolutely enjoyed. 

The elephants were very well trained .... I had accidentally dropped one of my thongs in the river, and without even saying anything, our elephant had already picked it up with his trunk and handed it back to me. Off course, he then expected a reward. Luckily we had bought a bag of bananas to feed them.





The elephant got a little too close for Eloise's comfort when he reached in for more bananas!



The girls were fine with riding on the elephant and in fact loved it but were not so keen when they got too close !

"Get me away from the elephant ... now !"

After the trek, other elephants showed us some of their other tricks at the elephant show. We were most impressed with the elephant that could pop ballons with a dart and Eloise has asked if she could have that as a party game at her next birthday party (hopefully minus the elephant!).

Elephant style dart throwing

 

Despite how well trained the elephants were, we were still not game enough to put ourselves or the kids under the elephant for a Thai massage!

Thai back massage ....

And naturally, an elephant knows how to ask for a tip ....

500 baht tip for the elephant !