The guy in charge of our elephant even let me slide down off the bench and ride on the elephant's head. As Jordan said, I felt like a princess! Our elephant was rather cantankerous though, and she kept wandering off the beaten path or stopping to scratch an itch on a nearby rubber tree.
After the trek through the jungle, we fed the elephants some pineapples.
This baby elephant did an awesome impression of Taylor Hicks, complete with harmonica!
While I was desperate to go elephant-trekking, Jordan really wanted to go snorkeling. So we went on a full day tour by speedboat to several different and very beautiful islands. Once I learned how to breathe (in my defence I had never used a snorkel before), it was amazing! The speedboat ride was a bit rough though, but fortunately, I was too excited to get sick. We weren't really floating on the water, more like jumping from wave to wave!
This is one of the more unique islands we saw, called Chicken Island.
A few times, we all just jumped off the boat to go snorkeling in deep water so we could see all the coral on the bottom. The water was perfectly clear, and it was beautiful seeing the coral and colorful fish. Jordan saw a Nemo fish, but I missed it. We took an underwater camera, so we had a lot of fun with that! Jordan was a bit disappointed in the final results however.
Here are some snorkelers looking for fish near a cave.
It was a beautiful day, and it was so much fun! We both got a little red on our backs from being face-down in the water all day!
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