Today we had a great day, we did a 1-day elephant training session. We were taken to the jungle, we learnt how to give commands to the elephants and we rode them individually practicing the commands. Then we learnt how to make Thai papaya salad with lots of unripened papaya, peanuts, chilli, green beans, lemons. It was delicious, we had the salad with a very tasty Thai lunch and then we rode the elephants in the jungle. At the end we cleaned them in the river with buckets and brushes whilst they were lying in the water. It was a fantastic experience - they are such huge animals but they behave like pet dogs, they enjoy people's company, are curious and clever.
This evening we had a nice meal, walked near the night market and I had an excellent foot massage.