Day Tour part 4

After eating lunch and crossing this rather shaky bridge, we finally got to ride the elephants.  (I was worried that Ana would get stuck on the bridge, but she actually did better than many of the Asian women I watched!)

The girls rode on a rather tall male elephant because he could carry all three of us.  The countryside is very beautiful.

 

 We fed our elephants sugar cane and the mahout let Ana get down on the elephant's neck (she probably wasn't supposed to, but you only live once.)(Yes I photoshopped us out.)

Then we all got sprayed when the elephant sneezed!

 

 We liked walking along in the river.  It was much more shady and cool.

 

Here's Matt and China on their elephant. 

Our mahout was very talkative and told us the ages of all the elephants, how much the elephants like giving rides more than logging, and how our elephant wasn't Thai, but had been rescued from somewhere else.  It was a nice ride with enough hills to keep it exciting for the kids.