Songkran Elephants!!

A Sanctuary of Loving Kindness

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May 15th 2012
Sometimes it seems that there are elephant symbols everywhere in Thailand and at times actual elephants. What surprises me is how few people actually know anything about real live elephants. I am definitely in this category having experienced them only in zoos or at tourist venues where they give rides, paint, play football and do a great variety of other parlor tricks for which they are trained, ... 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