Hi guys we have 30 minutes before we need to catch a bus so no photos today, sorry. We had another good week with the elephants. This time we had two new people with us - Claire and Gemma. Claire and Claire could share experiences on rubbish backs so they had a lot in common. We got to ride the elephants again, although the flood waters have gone down a lot here so we went to the river this time instead of just a flooded feild. We had a go with the local farmi...

Hello All, We are back in Surin after our second week of elephant adventures. This week we were entertained by the local children on the Monday night doing a welcoming dance/ceremony. It was quite interesting to watch them dance and then to get the girls to join in, I kept my distance and just took photos. At the end as a thank you Claire and I made camp doughnuts - which evybody liked. Mon was away this week so I had Buitan (think that's spelt right) she's a...

Hello all, Well yesterday was a sleepy day in Surin city - there's not a lot here but that suits us right now. I got up and wandered the streets looking for wifi and Claire caught up on some sleep. Later in the day we were about to eat the cereal we bought last weekend and left her but the ants had beaten us to it (there are ants everywhere and some of them are quite vicious). So we ventured out to the supermarket to by some more provisions. After that we wat...

Hello all, Well yesterday was a sleepy day in Surin city - there's not a lot here but that suits us right now. I got up and wandered the streets looking for wifi and Claire caught up on some sleep. Later in the day we were about to eat the cereal we bought last weekend and left her but the ants had beaten us to it (there are ants everywhere and some of them are quite vicious). So we ventured out to the supermarket to by some more provisions. After that we wat...

Hi guys we are back in Surin and I'm sitting in the carpark of the thai equivalent of asda borrowing someone's wifi. We have just got back from our first week working with the elephants and it was awesome. We are staying with a mahout called Mr Lee and his family. There were five of us this week and it has gone by soo fast. We arrived on our first day and got taken to meet the elephants, mine is called Mon which I think is short for monster cause she is huge!!...