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Elephant Riding – A Delightful Experience on a Gentle Giant

With a sun kissed beach and a vibrant nightlife Hua Hin is the ideal destination for a coastal vacation.Hua Hin became a glamorous beach getaway when in 1922 King Rama the 7th constructed a Palace in this small fishing village. Located in the northern part of the Malay Peninsula Hua Hin is approximately 200 km s away from the Thai capital, Bangkok. Blessed with tropical weather this holiday destination has still successfully avoided the bustle associated with other beach resort destinations. While in this enchanting city you will not only find a bewitching beach but also a host of other blessings of nature including amazing mountains and cascading waterfalls.

A must do while on visit to Hua Hin is riding an elephant. In the olden days the main mode of transportation in Thailand has been the elephant. You can find a fascinating elephant camp located just 3km s from Hua Hin. The elephant you ride will have a wooden seat attached with tight ropes to its back and you would be sitting there. The trainer or the guide will be sitting in front of you on the elephant and will be guiding it along. You can spend a day of admiring these gentle giants by feeding them bananas and watching them take a bath in the river. The elephants are capable of expertly travelling in diverse treks including dense jungles, and hills of mud and earth. All you have to make sure is to hold on to your seat and enjoy the splendid scenery unfolding around you.

Being a coastal destination Hua Hin has an endless supply of succulent sea food. You can easily grab a meal of fresh sea food dishes in the many restaurants and cafes scattered across the city. Some hotels offer sea food buffets including sea food BBQ along with traditional Thai dance and music. However, you can also find international cuisine such as Indian, Japanese and Western among the array of restaurants.

Hua Hin hotels range from budget, mid range to luxury accommodation. Among the Hua Hin luxury hotels you will find excellent service and a warm exotic ambiance. Anantara Hua Hin, Thailand will remind you of an ancient Thai village and is one of the most romantic and luxurious getaways of the country.

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The Elephant Orchestra – Thailand

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Elephants (Hardcover) $52.57 Introduces the two kinds of African elephant–savannah elephants and forest elephants–describing their physical features, habitat, life cycle, and behavior.

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Elephants (Paperback) $24.18 Presents information about elephants and how they demonstrate intelligence by communicating with one another, teaching their young, expressing their emotions, and mourning their dead.

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When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thialand $119.01 Appalled by the conditions of domesticated elephants in Thailand, two Russian artists took a cue from some American zoo elephants who had been taught to paint, and set out to open their own art school for elephants, with proceeds from sales going toward the elephants’s proper food and care. Full-color photos. From the Publisher For centuries elephants in Thailand have been revered as a national symbol, worshiped as living gods and employed as beasts of burden in the nation’s thriving timber industry. But when logging was banned in Thailand in 1990, these noble animals fell on hard times. Reduced to performing tricks for tourists by day and illegal heavy labor by night, Thailand’s elephants were exhausted, malnourished, and dying in alarming numbers. Hearing of their plight, a pair of unlikely heroes came to the rescue, Wildly eccentric Russian emigre artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid devised a brilliant scheme: to create the world’s first quadruped occupational retraining program-a network of art schools for unemployed elephants. Taking a cue from elephant trainers in a number of American zoos, Komar and Melamid taught the animals to hold brushes in their trunks and apply paint to canvas. And the results were astonishing: Not only did the elephants’ paintings closely resemble the expansive gestural work of such Abstract Expressionist artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, but the pachyderm painters also began to develop clearly distinct regional styles-lyrical and expressive in the northern Thai school, subtle and atmospheric in the east, dynamic and angst ridden in the central school.Sanctioned by the World Wildlife Fund, the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project has been a remarkable success; paintings by some of the most talented elephant artists have been auctioned at Christie’s for thousands of dollars, generating funds to provide proper care for the elephants and support for their trainers. When E