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sassqueen7
- Mar 11, 2012
- 1 min
Bathing the Elephants and Golden Buddha Statues
The next morning we woke up early to watch the sunrise and bathe the elephants!! Our guide met us and we waited for the “ladies” to come out of the forrest. Once they did, we climbed on, and took them down to the river for a little bath. We had so much fun!!!! Once the bath was over they went on to start their day and greet some new visitors who had just arrived, but after breakfast we had not had enough of them, so Adam bought 3 bushels of bananas to feed both of our elepha
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sassqueen7
- Mar 10, 2012
- 2 min
The Elephant Village
This adventure is in the top 5 things I have ever done, if not top 2. (Number 1 being helping my sister in the delivery room). Around 8:30am our guide, M came to our hotel to pick us up and take us to the Elephant Village. Once we were there we met the Elephants, learned their language, how to speak with them and how to ride them. I fell instantly in love. I have never ridden a horse as they scare me a bit, but felt comfortable on the Elephant. Adam and I first practiced gett
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sassqueen7
- Mar 10, 2012
- 1 min
Luang Prabang
We flew into Luang Prabang last night to find the area covered in a smoke or smog like haze. As there are only 6 million people in the whole country we did not think it could be smog but wondered what it could be. Turns out we are here during the 3 months when all the farmers burn the old leaves and crops to get ready for the new crops, but it puts the whole area under a layer of smoke. The full moon last night was as orange as I have ever seen the moon. It was incredible. Ad
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