We spent this morning riding Elephants. Thailand used to have ten thousands of Elephants working in the forests (timber industry). Now that is over a few are left and you can visit them and ride them in Elephant Parks. They were very friendly animals and as far as we could see, treated well. We gave them lots of sugar cane and bananas and they did not complain. On our way back we used an ox car which was fine for the open road, but wouldn't helped us deep in the jungle.