Here is our Mahout/elephant trainer, whose name was Mr. Bad. Traveling with two little superhero obsessed boys I thought his name was awesome. But no one else got it.
Being able to ride on top of such a beautiful calm creature is enough of a treat but when we started moving and I realized how breathtakingly beautiful the area was I was speechless.
The boys were great. Malcolm got a little nervous (as did I) when he realized that the elephant was going into the river. Glad to know he correctly gauges potentially dangerous situations! I explained that we wouldn’t be in the river, only the elephants legs would be in, and he felt much better once the elephant was in and he understood. Then the elephant had a humongous poo in the river, we all had a good laugh and felt much better. Ah, life with boys.
It’s hard to take a selfie that captures the three of us on an elephant. But here you go. You’re welcome.
After our ride Adam got to sit on Mae Buakham’s neck. What a brave boy, he wasn’t even scared!
After that we were invited to feed Mae Buakham some bananas to reward her for all the hard work she put in lugging us around. I wasn’t sure if Adam would be into this but after I helped him feed the first one he went ahead and fed all the rest of the bananas all by himself. Malcolm was a little scared and opted to watch Adam instead.
Is there anything more soulful than an elephant’s eye? I don’t think so.
I tried to give it to his trunk but our guide explained it had to go inside his mouth! I would have been a little worried but Adam had no problem and got right in there and loved it!
After all the bananas were gone our guide gave Adam a big branch to feed the elephant!
‘Tastes like cheese’ is my favorite line from this video!
Goodbye Mae Buakham, we hope we get to see you again one day!
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