Phang Nga Elephant Park!

Patong Beach 

Here are some photos to go along with Jim's post from a couple days ago. It is too bad that we came during the rainy season because the weather has not been that great. However we still managed to squeeze in some beach trips. 

Ao Sane beach 

As you all know I haven't been feeling well but slowly I've been getting better. We spent Sunday and Monday just relaxing at our hotel and sleeping most of the day which was exactly what my body needed. Just when I started feeling better Jim got sick! We had booked to do this elephant park a few weeks ago and were both really looking forward to it and of course with our luck thats the morning that Jim woke up ill. We ended up still going, poor Jim powered through it. We cancelled our original plans for today instead so that he can relax and get better. We were going to go on a day cruise to Phi Phi islands but I think that the weather would have been miserable anyway. 

The park we went to is called Phang Nga Elephant Park. http://phangngaelephantpark.com/tours/elephant-experience-2-half-day/  It was a really cool park and really well organized, they also really love and take good care of the elephants which was nice to see. Our elephant was really stubborn because she wouldn't listen to the guide and kept going off track to eat plants. It was cool ridding them bare back cause you can feel their bones and muscles move under you but it was also a very uncomfortable ride since their skin is so rough and their wasn't much to hold onto. Feeding our elephant was the best part in my opinion. She just LOVED bananas and would chuck 6 of them in her mouth at a time and make the funniest slurping noises while doing it. The guide told us that we could feed the bananas directly in her mouth where you can see how big her massive tongue is. After, we bathed the elephants in freezing cold water but it was a lot of fun. They are such cool animals, its a shame that the tourism industry takes advantage of them. 

Here is a mom and a baby. Apparently they didn't know the mom was  pregnant and she had the baby completely on her own in the woods this past December. She had to be caged up because she gets very aggressive towards others because she tries to protect her baby. The baby was super cute, looked really happy and playful.