TOO MANY ELEPHANTS (Surin, Thailand)

Surin Elephant Festival 2009
Elephants playing soccer is amazingly adorable
I like 2:45 when the elephant is like
WHEEEEEEEEE =D
awwwwwww -_-

also, elephant poopfest

I liked the music they were playing at the fair.
very folky/Isaan-y :) I think it's called a Pong Lang ensemble with Kaen (the bamboo free reed thingy), Wot (pan flute), Phin (guitar), Pong-Lang (xylophone) - they were playing pong lang dance. Or is this Morlam? dunno

Surin, Thailand is a land of Elephants indeed.
Elephant Roundup 2009 November 19-22
Fruit car (?) display (19th)
Elephant buffet (20th)
Light and sound show at Sikhoraphum castle (20th)
Elephant show (21st, 22nd)

Thanks to LanguageCorps for helping me find this cute little town that I would have probably never known of otherwise:
http://www.languagecorps.com

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[newoleanns]

What a fantastic video to watch!

Makes you want to go to Surin, Thailand.

[TheMarshall67]

I've been coming to Thailand for the last 7 years, but I've have not been to Surin. This coming year, I will!.

[TooManyElephants]

Too many of 'em. Too many elephants... :(

[monkeyjoe70]

@Misslucyli u have any link to the training video??

[Misslucyli]

How can people actually like this?! These are not elephant normal behaviors, please watch how they train these elephants to perform these tricks, it's heart breaking.

[wivar2]

I miss my home



[imprezabob]

@guydecervens

african elephants - about 500,000

asian elephants - about 40,000

humans - about 6,000,000,000

[Lanla101]

น่าจะใช้เพลงกันตรึม  อะครับ จะได้เข้าบรรยากาศ

[CharlieDoan]

Elephants in the cities???Kinda scare!!

I thinnk no more elephants in the city in Vietnam where I used to live

I lived in the USA over 30 years since Viet Cong came to Saigon!

[MorlumFan]

Wow this wonderful wish i could be right now haha :D

[FredrikCLK]

Surin is AWSOME...

Been there a couple of times..

And I am from Norway krap...