Ao Nang- Did an elephant trek here today. Went for a ride atop the local megafauna Elephas maximus. These beasts of burden now take tourists around instead of logging. The other day one of their cousins, a 22 year old female up north in Lampang Province stepped on a land mine along the Burmese border and it gave me a little perspective on these gals down south who don’t have it so bad I rationalized.
Drinky, drinky. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
And we're off! Follow your nose. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
Eyeing up the farang in her midst. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
Don't bother me, I'm eating. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
Our guide takes a well deserved smoke break with a coconut leaf cigarette. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
My beast of burden works up an appetite and wrestles palm fronds. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
End game. Time to wallow in their mud. ©2010 Derek Henry Flood
Reporting for duty! She is already gearing up for the next group of tourists.©2010 Derek Henry Flood