The road to the "Elephant Village" passed under a heated argument from a family sitting next door. Mom told her teenage daughter that elephants for Thais are like pets for urban Russians, or like a cow for villagers, that they have been born, live and die among people for a long time, that they will not survive outside this village, that the state allocates lifelong maintenance for each elephant (a kind of elephant pension). But the teenager, with the maximalism characteristic of this age, demanded "freedom for parrots" - to close the office, disperse the Thai owners, release the elephants into the wild. Arriving at the place, we saw a cozy, tourist-themed playground. Russian russians took a ride on a young elephant, to the song of the "mahout" in broken Russian -
"oh frost, frost, don't freeze me,
don't freeze me, my ELEPHANT", took a course in obscene Russian with a Thai flavor in the form of ditties, staged a race with a neighboring couple on an elephant (we won, and our proudly christened "Ferrari Elephant"). Then there was a bathing of the "Red Horse", i.e. a gray elephant with shampoo in a local river, then a small show and feeding large and small elephants with bananas bought right there. In general, we did not notice any violence or ill-treatment, although no, at the end of the tour there was aggression and intemperance... to us, we saw an elephant standing alone, with a small chain on its leg, nailed to the ground with a peg, deprived of bananas and the attention of visitors, we decided to eliminate this injustice. As soon as we approached him, we heard the heart-rending scream of our guide and a rude warning that if an elephant tramples us to death, then we would have no complaints to the travel agency. It will be necessary to write a complaint against this guide to the World Organization for the Protection of Wild Tourists.
The village is beyond praise👏🐘
Elephants, a zoo, a drag queen show.
As a gift for each ticket, a free cocktail 🍹🐘
You can also buy bananas in the village 🍌
feed the elephants and other animals.
Ride elephants, take pictures with transvestites.
Well, in general, we went. First, the elephant show is not an elephant show, but a show of mutilated people (and of their own volition) dressed in stage costumes. The elephant was there a couple of times and then as a decoration. These people could also hug or kiss. Yes, that's it. Second:There's a 20-minute look and that's it. Third: elephant riding. We unknowingly paid for everything at once, including the skating. We got in line for skating and.... we received queue number 166 at 15.30 minutes, and the time was 13.00. That is, we have to wait in line for 2.5 hours in this hole. Instead of the sea. They wanted to refund the money, but they didn't. In the end, we waited, but spent an extra 3 hours. We could have left without riding anyway, but the children... And there were 4 of us