Lee feeding an elephant sugar cane

Mahout training

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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 ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more