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Feeding time  
   

Feeding time

Phot's daughter Aree feeding the elephants. They are really really gentle with her. The purple stuff on the elephant is medicine, to heal their cuts.
Where the farang and the elephants roam...

November 18th 2006
YOU!!! Kris Note: A farang is a foreigner like me and Kate. So we left Kanchanaburi to visit the "Elephants & friends foundation" just outside the town. Its a titchy little camp in the middle of nowhere where a gang of mahouts (or elephant trainers/drivers) look after elephants rescued from mistreatment in various forms from dodgy tourist camps to industry. There are ... read more
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Thai Flag 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
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