The View from up Here

Sorry for the absence of posts, but we've been trying to make the most of the last few days of our honeymoon. A few days ago we drove up to Khao Sok National Park. It was a nice meandering ride through the country, and at the end of the road...elephants! We came to a place where you step up to a large platform, and up onto a waiting beast. Then the guide starts leading the elephant into the jungle for a trek like no other. Guided solely with voice commands, the elephant strides down dirt paths, through streams, and over large rocks and changes in grade. Sometimes it would grab a big piece of vegetation, as big as a tree log, and chomp down. I'd seen elephants before, but sitting astride its head while it moves through the jungle was very different, to say the least. At the end of the ride, we gave our big friend some bananas. I think he liked us.

-K