We visited Elephant Jungle Sanctuary in Phuket. It didn’t really feel like a sanctuary, it was definitely more geared toward tourist than the elephants. But their  elephants have been removed from logging industries, riding tours, or other animal shows, so getting fed, bathed, showered, and not having to do physical work all day is a definite improvement.

Annika will always be the first one finding a dog.

We did a jungle walk with one of the elephants, Lam Yai, an almost 60 year old elephant. She spent 40 years working in logging camps, and then 14 more in riding camps.  So she has spent most of her life around people.  She was very calm walking through the jungle. She was constantly stopping to eat some greenery. This was after being fed 2 large baskets of watermelon and a dozen plus stalks of sugar cane.

Walking with Lam Yai