Day 24: The Making of a Mahout
November 7th 2009 Today is the first day of our Mahout (elephant trainer) course.
There are many elephant camps surrounding Luang Prabang - and the number of elephant camps is growing, despite the fact that elephants aren't native to this region. But tourists love the elephants and so the mahouts bring their elephants down from northern Laos (the word "Laos" means "a million elephants") to give paying tourists
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