In the midst of shopping for new silver style samples our supplier insisted we go see the elephant show. We drove an hour north of Chiang Mai to an elephant park/sanctuary where we found out the show was already over. Instead, we got to go on an elephant ride!
We road the elephant down the river and then up into the hill tribe village of the Lisu. We surveyed all of their wares, walking down the line of huts before purchasing 1 item from each villager. My favorite was the 5 year old boy. We bought 2 friendship bracelets from him!
After bargaining, or really failing to bargain with the Lisu women we got to drive an ox cart back to our supplier and her driver. She could not ride on the elephant with us because she has a bad neck. (Or at least that is what she told us - We are pretty sure they had a good laugh at us being silly farongs but we enjoyed it none the less.)
Salai is working on our blog about the 10,000 monks that were in town this past Saturday on their traditional Merit-Making activity. We leave for Bangkok this evening and then onto Bali early Monday AM. I am trying to find a way to post video. We have a great one of us feeding the elephants bananas and sugar cane!
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