We went to an elephant reserve today and got to bathe and feed elephants. The place is run by the national forest reserve here and was only recently opened up to tourism but it’s clear the government hadn’t been doing such a hot job since long before then. Employees carried sticks with vicious looking spikes on them and some elephants had torn ears from where riders rest their feet. It was all glossed over, and everyone said ‘oh, they can’t feel it’ but this is difficult to believe.
We got to wash and feed the elephants in the river and one of the elephants mistook one of our scrub brushes for a mango. Hopefully they are relatively easy to digest. Another of the elephants stood up and dropped a gigantic deuce while we were washing it. It was upstream too so a lot of people got pretty poopy.
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I heard that same pitch about the dolphins I swam with in mexico and I had similar feelings about it.
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