Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Elephant Riding

After strolling around the tiny village for about five minutes, we started heading back to the truck. That's when we saw this! Maybe the biggest elephant I've ever seen.



Sarah and I were then told to get on by climbing this really run-down ladder. It was really scary getting on. We held onto the rusty elephant seat up top. Our tour guide took this photo for us.



We then proceded to walk down a pretty steep hill on the elephant. We had to hold on with all our strength not to fall out of the seat. I'd say were were maybe 12+ feet off the ground... I don't know, but it definitely wasn't the safest thing we've done before. But we realized there was no stopping our adventure now.





The elephant driver sat right on top of the elephants head the entire time like it was no big deal! After a few minutes walking downhill, we started heading up at a really steep angle. We were walking up really narrow path between trees, dropoffs, rocks, and everything, just hoping for it to end.

We then saw the platform to get off the elephant in the distance. We'd survive afterall.





there she goes...





the ride back was great...




1 comment:

Unknown said...

doesn't it look like that thing would hurt the elephant's butt? ouch.