7 March 1986

Travelled north of Chiang Mai and got off the bus at the Chiang Dao Elephant Camp. The elephants in Thailand are Indian elephants, Elephas maximus indicus, they were listed as endangered that same year.

Evi was there. Not many other tourists, but a nice display of washing the elephants in the river and dragging logs. People fed them bananas and took 20 baht rides. Bought strawberries – delicious, and played with a docile gibbon.

Here’s Evi with an endangered Lar, or white-handed gibbon. You can just see the chain that tethered it to a spike in the ground.