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Elephant Riding
December 2007 8 |
Elephants were in tropical Asia what horses were in medieval Europe, and more. Elephants were the tractors, cars and tanks of old Asia, and even the sizes of gates were measured in the number of elephants that could pass the gate side by side. The wealth and power of a ruler was measured by the number of elephants he controlled, and who could be more powerful than the ruler over One Million Elephants? "One Million Elephants" was the name of the kingdom that is now Laos. And just like in neighbouring Thailand's Chiang Mai province, which was called "One Million Rice Fields", and where you can hardly avoid eating rice, it is hard to avoid elephants in Laos.
There are a lot of providers who offer elephant riding in Laos, some of them "professional" companies who keep elephants just for this purpose, some of them villages who rent out their work elephants for tours now and then. We went with one of the latter.
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