Elephants
After pancakes and omelet for breakfast, with Laurie as our guide we drove ‘Indonesian style’ (on a motor bike) to the elephants. When we got there the keepers rode the elephants, holding trunks to tails, to the river and we all followed close behind.
At the river the elephants had a swim before we scrubbed them all clean. The baby elephants tried to steel sugarcane from the keepers. The elephants were hairy but their skin was quite soft and delicate not very hard.
When the elephants were clean they decided that we needed a shower to so they sprayed water all over us. After all that work giving people showers they were hungry so we gave them bananas and sugarcane. The youngest elephants trunk wasn’t big enough to hold the food and when she did manage to hold a small banana she held her trunk out as if there was nothing in it.
Once the elephants had eaten all the food we shook hands/trunks with them before they had a short rest and ate some porridge. After they had had their break we got to ride them. Two people on each elephant. To get to the jungle the elephants had to cross a river 6 times and we hoped that they didn’t decide to roll over and have a swim because then we would get very wet.
Jungle Walk
Next, at 12:00 we went on a jungle walk with Laurie as our guide. Before the walk we put on leech cream however, on the way we still had to remove a few leeches from our trousers. During the journey we had to wade trough several rivers and Laurie pointed out many orangutang nests.
Eventually, we came to a stoney beach were there was a beautiful shrine of flowers to hold our lunch. After a short swim, lunch was fresh, juicy pineapple as a starter and chicken goreng with rice, prawn crackers and fried aubergine.
Then we swam to a waterfall were there was a rock which Alex jumped off. Emma somehow kept a flower in her hair the whole time. Laurie did a flip off the rock. After swimming we walked back crossing between beaches and wadding through the water to the house.
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