Care about the animals who lives on earth as same as us -Rebecca

When I was university student, I had been to Phuket Island for my graduated trip. That is group travel by travel agent, but the members are all my classmates.
When we arrived in Phuket, there was a schedule to riding Elephant, but all of us didn't think too much, just got on the Elephant then walk around for few minutes.
Then we said bye bye, we even didn't turn back to see them again.
But now, I saw the video about the way they training Elephant, It’s a heartache.

Blow is the video and blog about the news
http://blog.xuite.net/bestwill/thai/16754414#trackBack_header
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/yahoo-0915222622/article?mid=16011

I didn't mean that the tourists are all cruel, just because they didn't know the truth, or didn't have good educated about how to love animals, I think we lack of this in Taiwan's education.
The animals will be tortured worse in the country which has worse economic problems.

Sometimes it makes me hate the human being.

Humanity overuse the resources of earth, cause the menace to other animals, then we said loudly that they need to work for us for its own survival. It is Ridiculous!!!

But it still has bright side of mankind. I found a website is coming from a farm which protects elephants as blow:
http://www.pataraelephantfarm.com/
In this farm we also can close to the elephant instead of riding them, or watching them play tricks.
I found a man who put on his blog about the experience in this farm, the blog site is as blow
http://tsenghsuehyen.pixnet.net/blog/post/27064287/1#comment-30179168

I wrote an e-mail to the farm, and they returned back so quickly as blow:

Dear Rebecca Chang,

Thank you for your interest in Patara Elephant Farm visit.

The trip "Elephant Owner For A Day" is a specialized and meaningful training trip with happy elephants and their babies. It's a great day out for visitors who want to be with, learn, take care for elephants and riding them bare back as what's an elephant owner would do daily. Trip is suitable for all especially lovers, friends, and family with children.(not for those who expect to see elephant dancing and perform tricks)

As we are a small farm and our farm is self-sustainable farm focusing on elephant breeding that can be assure you that your experience at Patara Elephant Farm would be more “personalize” rather than “commercialize”. By creating wonderful and unforgettable experiences, we would need the happy elephants. We do not treat our elephants like working elephants but instead we raise them as close to the natural ways as possible.

Also at Patara Elephant Farm, each of our elephant only perform its duty at the maximum of one trip for one person per day as their good welfares are our most concern (more can be explained during the trip). We are not positioning our farm as a mass tourist attraction that is the reason why we can only accommodate 10 persons per day. On top of that, you will be able to spend more precious time with our elephants and creating quality interaction with them during the trip. Moreover our program is more personalize and specialize based on one on one.

Yes, we still have availability in December for one day trip at this stage.

To make your reservation, please reply our email and let us know your preferred date. Please also let us know the hotel that you will be staying in so we can arrange transportation accordingly.(We can pick you up from any hotel in Chiang Mai. Our farm is actually locate within Chiang Mai. Only 29 km. form down town)

Since availability is limited at 10 persons per day, we suggest you make arrangement with us once your plan is finalized.

Cost for the trip is 5,800 baht/person including transportation, traditional Thai picnic lunch, and DVD photos of your activity.

Training is base on 1 on 1 with your own elephant. Please see more details at www.pataraelephantfarm.com

A private trip is also available at 11,000 Baht/person including also DVD movie of your trip.

We are looking forward to introducing you all to our elephant experience.

I know the December of this year, we all have a long holiday from 12/26 to 1/1, maybe we can put this speciall trip to our travel schedule.