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Tee cooks us lunch.
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ride's over
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I quickly overcame my reluctance for stepping on heads. Her neck made an excellent footrest.
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It was just like riding a horse, except instead of snacking on grass, they would pull down bamboo branches.
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(note the full mouth and trunk)
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river crossing
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various views from elephant-back
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Catie and Leslie on theirs
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Nansi boards the elephant.
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Hop on!
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All of a sudden this grass was everywhere, and I thought I was in someone's backyard in Texas.
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Our elephants approach.
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a very sturdy bridge
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a stream we recrossed a dozen times
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We take our first (quick) bamboo raft trip.
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still hiking
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...and across a big one.
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Tee helps us across a little stream.
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We all wore it at one point, hoping in vain it would help the heat.
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still walking