Thread: Wild Elephant Attack on Volunteer Prompts Enhanced Protection Measures in Chachoengsa

When I was about 19 or 20 I went on a trek originating in Chiang mai which involved a bus , a longtail boat up a river , an elephant ride up the side of a mountain which was unbearably uncomfortable, the mahout was repeatedly stabbing the damn elephant in the neck with some sort of icepick things. At the end of the day we stayed in a village and smoked opium pipes for 10 baht each. Dreadful treatment of the elephant really. But at the time I was more interested in getting a shot away, inhaling the frostys etc. at the time I could care less. Fook elephants, fook Steve Irwin.