Most travel agents are removing their offers of riding on an elephant – although this was still available to us – we declined as we felt it would be unethical. We still visited the elephant orphanage though, which was originally set up to take care of abandoned elephants – it does however seem to be a major tourist attraction now, with people buying food and feeding them which is absolutely forbidden. We also didn’t stay for feeding as we felt we wouldn’t like a herd of elephants taking photos of us eating. However I couldn’t resist taking just a few photos – they are just such majestic animals and the baby elephants make me want to adopt!!!
We left the orphanage hoping they really are being treated with respect.