Mahout training
April 17th 2009 On the morning of the 16th April we were picked up from our hostel at 8.30am, along with 10 other people, by a couple of really cool Thai guys both called Tum, for 2 days of mahout training. A mahout is somebody who drives and looks after an elephant and first stop on our training course was the local market for the elephants' breakfast. We were told that elephants eat 250kg of food a day so we bo
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