Day 3 - Kuala Lumpur (elephants)

Today was a very early start and the first day we actually had something booked up. We got up around 7 got ready and headed straight for the monorail to take us to our pick up point. We got picked up around half 8 and our long old journey began. We had to swap busses a few times but eventually we were on our last bus and on our way to the elephant sanctuary. Our driver decided to take us a little of schedule to visit the Batu temple. Which was amazing. I think we're going there properly tomorrow.  We then stopped on the way at a fabric shop. Where the locals draw and paint silk fabrics by hand. It was really cool (wish we could have brought a scarf home for mum, she would have loved it! But they were a little pricey). After a short 15 minutes here we set off again! About 30 minutes from the sanctuary we pulled over for some lunch at a small Indian restaurant. Where we had fried chicken with rice and some green bean salad. Finally it was the last leg of our journey. When we arrived at the elephant sanctuary we watched a short video on why the elephant sanctuary came about then it was time to go and see the elephants. We had a really nice guide who talked us through everything we would be doing. Our first activity was feeding some on the baby elephants. There was three there who were about 3 years old and one who was about 1. The youngest one, Ellie was in there because she had gotten caught in a trap and lost her foot. Feeding them was amazing. It felt so weird. We fed them bamboo and bananas. They seemed to love it. Next we went to see some on the bigger elephants. You could feed them too but I'd wasted all my food on the baby ones. But we still got to stroke their trunks and say hello! Next we went to the river to watch the sanctuary workers bath the big elephants. They looked super happy to be cooling off in the water. After their bath they showed us the elephants and introduced us to each elephant. Told us their names and how old they were and showed us how clever they were. I was a little unsure at some parts because I was concerned at how the elephants were treated. But they all seemed orettt happy and you could tell the workers had a bond with them. Our last activity was bathing the smaller elephants. Which was definitely my favourite part. And something I got to tick off my bucket list. It was so surreal. Unfortunately the day had to come to an end and we started our long journey back to our hotel. Me and cal spent a majority of the ride asleep I'm pretty sure. Was a very long and extremely hot day. I caught the sun a little and somehow. Calum didn't burn. We got back to the hotel around 6.30/ 7 and we're thankful to get out of our very wet (from sweat and river water) clothes. We both fell asleep pretty quickly and didn't wake up until about half 9. When we decided to take a little walk to China town for some dinner. We're back at the hotel now enjoying the aircon and watching transformers on the tv. Tomorrow we're hopefully going to the batu caves and temple and having a last explore of Peraling market and then will be catching a 5 hour bus to our next location. Singapore, were coming for you!

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