Luang Prabang

The Elephant Village Sanctuary is home to elephants and their Mahuts, giving them a new, safe home, away from abusive tourism practices that so many elephants endure in South East Asia.

There are nine elephants and mahouts here, each mahout has been the elephants trainer from both their childhoods

Here we go cruising in the Nam Khan, the elephants would splash around and play once they got belly deep

Way too much fun!!

Maxi the baby elephant, he is roughly 2 years old now

Oh, hey there big guy. After noon, the mahouts take them to bath and cruise around the trails for fun

Me and the famous Touly cruising through the Nam Khan, 10 second boat ride to the trails

Beginning to hike to the Ban Huayfaiy village

Beautiful village under the hot sun

There were many kids roaming around, all of them happy to flash their pearly whites

This is their album cover

And this is their manager

Everyone in the village was making brooms, here are a bunch drying in the hot sun

She was no more than five, but working her butt off to make brooms for the family to sell

Coming back from school

These guys wanted candy, I had none, they laughed at me