Day 9: good bye to BLES
It is hard to think it has already been 5 days and now we are headed to our next adventure. BLES and Katherine Connor, one of the founders, has more than lived up to what we had expected.
Ethical treatment of elephants – no riding, touching, or bathing, just observing them be elephants in their natural environment. It is amazing to think that this is only a recent movement – in the last 10-20 years.
We have one more planned elephant experience in December, at Elephant Nature Park, which is supposed to be much bigger and commercial. It will be good to compare and contrast the two experiences.
As Siri reminded me, this felt much more like a homestay with a Thai family – eating meals with the kids, playing games each night, going into the village and meeting the locals – that also had elephants. It has been a relaxing, slow time to just tallow things to be.
We now head back into Sukhothai – the small historical city, but bustling with cars and motorcycles and people. And we need to start plan the next part of our trip.
Siri and David Adventures 