点评:I highly recommend visiting the Airavata elephant sanctuary. We spent 4 hours with the elephants and their mahouts. All the elephants looked very healthy and well cared for. We were the only 2 tourists visiting and they do not get many tourists but that is a shame. We fed them, rode them and bathed them in the river which the elephants seemed to really enjoy. They splashed around like kids in a pool and the baby Noel, seemed to have the most fun of all. The path we walked on required crossing a stream twice so water shoes are highly recommended. Riding an elephant to keep feet dry was an option but frankly I wasn’t sure if I could hold on to the elephant walking down into the river then back up the bank on the other side! All in all it was a wonderful experience and I’m so glad we found this sanctuary where we visited without feeling icky about the experience or like we had supported something we would not have chosen to.
翻译:我强烈推荐大家去艾拉瓦塔大象保护区。我们和大象以及它们的象夫们一起度过了四个小时。所有的大象看起来都很健康,也得到了很好的照顾。我们是仅有的两名游客,那里游客不多,这真是太可惜了。我们喂了它们,骑了它们,还在河里给它们洗澡,大象们似乎非常享受。它们像孩子在泳池里一样嬉戏玩水,小象诺埃尔玩得最开心。我们走的路线需要两次过河,所以强烈建议穿涉水鞋。骑大象可以保持双脚干燥,但说实话,我不太确定自己能不能抓住大象,走到河里再从对岸爬上来!总而言之,这是一次非常棒的体验,我很高兴我们找到了这个保护区,而且这次参观并没有让我感到不舒服,也没有觉得自己支持了什么我们原本不想支持的事情。