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Want to work with elephants? - be a volunteer in Sumatra

Satwa Sumatra Elephant Ecolodge, in conjunction with Way Kambas Elephant Conservation Centre, announces the 2009 “Volunteer Elephant Package”. The package offers you a week of being an elephant carer. You will bathe, feed, play and ride your elephant. You will be expected to be useful and will work hard as the mahouts [...]

I was a mahout for a day

I travelled to Lampung in southern Sumatra and went to Way Kambas National park. I stayed at Satwa Sumatra Elephant Ecolodge! what a beautiful little oasis of a lodge it is…everyone was so nice and the food…cordon bleu from Ibu Rose! But I had the best fun playing with my elephant. [...]