Elephantastic - Jaipur

Meeting the elephants!

I had the same feeling as when we came to India. I felt scared and excited.

When we got there, I felt quite nervous because I'd never met the elephants before.

I stroked them near their eyes and fed them grass and hay.

We got to paint them which was very unusual but the elephants liked it because it's like a massage.

The elephants were big. We had two girl elephants. One was special as she was going to have a baby and she was blind. She was rescued from a circus.

They only have four teeth and they get new teeth six times in their life.

We gave them a drink of water. We had to spray the water up their trunk, then they sprayed it into their mouths.

We gave them a wash.

We sat on their backs and got sprayed.

I really didn't like that bit because I got soaked!

We had a ride on the elephants and it was quite relaxing.

I felt really sad when we had to leave them because I loved them.

Written by Harrison Thirkettle who lives in London and goes to school at St. Mary‘s.