I think I need to explain the surprise element in the whole elephant ordeal, if I may call it like that. After the arrival at the elephant camp (riding in on of those open type taxi vans for 40 min - will post a picture of that later - makes the best blow-dried-hair-look ever; beats Vidal Sassoon any time), we did not expect the trip up on a small hill to only be the preliminary event. Together with some other 10 elephants we descended to the river located in the area (you kinda walked through the water fro about 15 meters by the coast line and then back up), got slightly wet cause our elephant was "naughty" and then our elephant was led to a side and we were told to get off. Well, we wondered why our tour seemed to be finished while others continued, but, well - maybe that was what we had paid for. Anyway, your elephant 'rider' tells us to go to the riverside again, where we find our driver giving each a bath towel and pointing his finger towards the river again. We had no intention whatsoever to go swimming in the river.. why in the world would we do that? So we sort of protested, though the driver kept on saying: "Change" (meaning get into bikinis or something'). Anyway, we probably looked like two tourist idiots until the moment we saw 2 elephants coming over... now thats when we realized that this is gonna be the culmination of the whole trip :)
The guys were sweet enough to take pictures of the bathing - unfortunately many of them aren't very sharp, bet better this than nothing. After the 'water-fun' we had a quick wash under the two shower-heads located on the bank of the river; funny, since we didn't have our bikinis underneath, we were forced to stand there in our undies and the 2 guys didn't turn around or anything. Well, later we saw that the one taking pictures actually dared to take 2 shots while we were showering - what a daredevil, hehe :P
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