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Links below to Elephant Mountain Treks. |
Thai Elephants Pictures are worth more than our words The Elephant is the Thai national symbol I love Chang! ~ Khun Tem |
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Links below to Elephant Mountain Treks. |
Thai Elephants Pictures are worth more than our words The Elephant is the Thai national symbol I love Chang! ~ Khun Tem |
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I am always so happy to see my friend Pong. I like to call my friends, so Pong can trumpet over my mobile. Ka Pong's trumpet makes everyone happy!
Mae Hong Song Trek 2007 & Surin 1905 |
Surfin' Safari on the Malay .. note the beautiful Royal White Elephant in the rear.
Drawing 1827. Thai Elephant (front left) & African Elephant Note Head shape difference. & Elephant logging video 1925
Asian elephant scores 87% on controlled math test .. a math test involving baskets of fruit.
Left: Wat Chedi Sukhothai. Right: 13th century Wat Chang (elephant temple)
Spring, 2004. The authorities have deemed the elephant side walk acts to be hazardous to traffic & less than good for the elephant.
Fall, 2007. The elephants are still on the Sois of Lower Sukhumvet most evenings.
The handlers sell sugar cane to feed to the elephants.
I always pay the handler fee & then seek out a fruit cart to buy watermelon & papaya for Chang.
Wild Elephants can no longer be Zoo-ified .. A major incident in August, 2006 involved a sale / trade from a Thai 'wilderness park' in Chiang Mai to an Australian Zoo .. the paper trail on the 2 Elephants was was covered daily in Thai newspapers for weeks.
Left; Temple Buri Ram Province Right: Herd Om Koi Elephant Sanctuary
The light marking on some of the elephants is a deemed beautiful by the Thai. Royal White Elephant.
Your time with
elephants in the wild is time you will always treasure.
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Elephant Parks, Elephant Treks .. Even a job at an Elephant Reserve.
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Chiang Mai / Golden Triangle |
Thai Islands Phuket Siam Nature Elephant Trek Krabi Island 2 hour Elephant Trek |
Bangkok & Central Thailand |
Thailand Travel DVDs From Amazon.com
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KHAO LAK, Thailand (Reuters) - Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves. "I was surprised because the elephants had never cried before," mahout Dang Salangam said on Sunday on Khao Lak beach at the eight-elephant business offering rides to tourists. The elephants started trumpeting -- in a way Dang, 36, and his wife Kulada, 24, said could only be described as crying -- at first light, about the time an earthquake measured at a magnitude of 9.0 cracked open the sea bed off Indonesia's Sumatra island. |
