2008年10月16日木曜日

Elephant Festival


On November, there is elephant festival in Surin, northeast of Thai. Surin is located near the Cambodia’ s border.
There are many audiences from the whole of Thai, or all around the world. According to another authority, it said this festival is Thai elephant’s representative came to Surin for see people from all over the world. First, there is parade of more than 280 elephants. After that, there is elephant performance, for example, a bow, scenery of elephant hunting which is learned at this area from ancient times and view of train elephant which had catched. Also, it was showed elephants playing basket ball or soccer. In Thai, elephants were treated as a family than as a domestic animal, and it was support a part of people life. Thai elephants is clever than African elephant and, it is said that they can understand people language. In Asian area, we can see people drive the elephant but we never seen African driving the elephant. In this festival, elephants are perform many stunt so we can feel how elephants are clever. The climax of festival is parade of elephants with local peaple.

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