So towards the end of our week in LP I finally began to feel like I could do more than hide in the shade trying not to scratch my 80-odd bites. We had a night at the theatre to watch a show of traditional dance which was very impressive and then, on our last day there, had a day out. This started at a nearby elephant project where they have 7 fully grown elephants, rescued from logging work, and one 3 year old who is so cute. The old name for Laos, Lane Xang, means kingdom of a million elephants so it is very sad to realise that there are less than 100 left in the wild. However, there are quite a lot more than that still used by the logging industry and the camp are
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