Thread: Post a photo you took yourself

Originally Posted by Shutree

I met an elephant recently up in Si Songkhram. You don't see many in this part of Isan. I wonder what will happen to them, after a couple of years of no tourists and an increasing number of 'ethical tourists' who don't want animal shows. Maybe the less ethically inclined Chinese tourists will throw them a lifeline. It must be very difficult for the mahouts to afford to feed them.

We lived in Sa Kaeo 12mths 2010-11, in that time saw three with mahouts, two at a traveling circus setup, and two wild ones who wandered through past the house, helped themselves to sugarcane and then went on their way.

Over ten years in Chanthaburi, only get to read about them - most often impaling and shredding some poor rubber tapper.

August 2010