EVER SEEN AN ELEPHANT PAINT?

A visit to the Maesa Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai was an opportunity for a more personal encounter with the gentle giants. For a very reasonable entrance fee, we were able to hand feed elephants and be entertained by these creatures as they threw darts, dunked basketballs, kicked footballs and painted just a few meters from where we were seated. Good thing we grabbed front row seats so we had the best view.

This was a show worth documenting on video so we took a quick video of an elephant working on its self portrait. The mahout (elephant driver/trainer) would merely be in charge of dipping the paintb

rush in paint but the elephants did the rest of the work themselves. Each one had a different specialty—while others worked on single shade self portraits, others painted landscapes bursting with colour.