When you ride on an elephant!!
We had a chance on Friday to do some sightseeing on land! Robin and I were sitting in the hotel lobby looking at a map of the area when a taxi driver came up and made his soft sell. It worked for us! He offered to take us on a route that would take all day...we chose to pick and choose. He agreed, and off we went at 10:00. Nathan grumbled a bit that we were dragging him away from the pool, but he came along. First stop: elephant trekking! We rolled, jounced, bounced and lumbered our way through the rubber plantation for about 45 minutes. The only pics I got were of Robin and Matt because I had been given BOTH cameras. On the way, our "driver" pulled a palm frond out from under the seat Nathan and I were sitting on and started cutting, folding and singing. In about 3 minutes he handed me an intricately folded bird with feathery wings, bouncing from the little thin strip of palm. It was amazing. Then he took another and in a few minutes presented Nathan with a grasshopper. Our little creations bounced along with us as we enjoyed our elephant ride. Nathan had been wearing flip-flops and realized he needed to take them off so he wouldn't lose them. He then rode along with his bare feel resting on the back of the elephant's neck. The ride was
immensely entertaining, very slow, and not very smooth. The power of the elephant is awesome. Our driver was urging her along with little nudges by his bare feet behind her ears. At one point, our driver reached out and pulled some rubber off the trunk of the tree and handed it to Nate. Rubber in it's raw form looks, acts and smells like rubber things that we commonly use. There is no need for a lot of refinement it seems. Nate made a wrist band out of his stretchy drippy dried rubber strip. I took some blurry pictures. Couldn't be helped...moving
target and no steady tripod! I just aimed wildly while being flung to and fro and hoped for the best. It was an experience I won't soon forget.
We had a chance on Friday to do some sightseeing on land! Robin and I were sitting in the hotel lobby looking at a map of the area when a taxi driver came up and made his soft sell. It worked for us! He offered to take us on a route that would take all day...we chose to pick and choose. He agreed, and off we went at 10:00. Nathan grumbled a bit that we were dragging him away from the pool, but he came along. First stop: elephant trekking! We rolled, jounced, bounced and lumbered our way through the rubber plantation for about 45 minutes. The only pics I got were of Robin and Matt because I had been given BOTH cameras. On the way, our "driver" pulled a palm frond out from under the seat Nathan and I were sitting on and started cutting, folding and singing. In about 3 minutes he handed me an intricately folded bird with feathery wings, bouncing from the little thin strip of palm. It was amazing. Then he took another and in a few minutes presented Nathan with a grasshopper. Our little creations bounced along with us as we enjoyed our elephant ride. Nathan had been wearing flip-flops and realized he needed to take them off so he wouldn't lose them. He then rode along with his bare feel resting on the back of the elephant's neck. The ride was immensely entertaining, very slow, and not very smooth. The power of the elephant is awesome. Our driver was urging her along with little nudges by his bare feet behind her ears. At one point, our driver reached out and pulled some rubber off the trunk of the tree and handed it to Nate. Rubber in it's raw form looks, acts and smells like rubber things that we commonly use. There is no need for a lot of refinement it seems. Nate made a wrist band out of his stretchy drippy dried rubber strip. I took some blurry pictures. Couldn't be helped...moving target and no steady tripod! I just aimed wildly while being flung to and fro and hoped for the best. It was an experience I won't soon forget.
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