Chiang Mai Elephant Sanctuary

BEST MORNING EVERRRRR!!

Did you know that elephants have poor eyesight?

They can see yellow and blue the best, so naturally, we donned blue jumpsuits!

Did you also know that elephants in sanctuaries are so well looked after that they don’t have to do much foraging or moving around to look for food, and as a result they get constipated? 🙊

That meant that our first activity of the day was making elephant medicine balls! A mixture of raw brown rice, cooked rice, sugar cane, some random bitter root, bananas and salt!

This apparently helps them poop! The sanctuary had 9 elephants that were rescued from the logging industry around 15 years ago.

They have a huge amount of jungle that they are free to roam! They’re not tied up, and they’re not ridden.

We got to feed them for a while, wander around the jungle with them as they ate their way through foliage and bamboo, and finally when they got too hot we followed them into the water for a bath.

Lunch was served in a little hut, which was the best fried rice Bec has ever had (other than her dad’s, of course).

On the Bec fried rice scale, she gave it a 9/10. I have to admit, it was pretty good fried rice. We all stink of elephant, but it was worth it!