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Thanks for sharing this.It does sound like a great way to help the Elephants while getting to spend with them !

Thanks for sharing these thoughts. Elephants are highly intelligent animals, probably smarter than dogs for example. Wild elephants in Asia are having a hard time because of loss of habitat and conversion of their normal range to agricultural land. Most do not have ivory tusks so unlike their African cousins, they are not slaughtered for their teeth. In Sri Lanka I visited the elephant orphanage in Pinnawala a number of times, which I've previously written about on TravelGumbo at this link .

Marco Hazan, the man behind Humans of Paris   An 18-year-old law student has created a highly-popular Facebook site featuring the faces and stories of "real Parisians." Called "Humans of Paris," and modeled on the "Humans of New York" blog, it...

A Swedish family that found a message in a bottle while out in their boat near Gothenburg has now connected with the Norwegian youth who posted it eleven years ago, near his home in Frederikstad, Norway.   The Swedish family read the message, "I...

Severus Snape checking in passengers at Laguardia? What's going on here?   Well, it's actually not the Potions Master of Hogwarts, played in the movies by Alan Rickman. It's David Dolci, an American Airlines gate agent. After several years of...

If you like your publicity stunts bizarre, this one's for you. AirBaltic celebrated reaching 100,000 "likes" on Facebook by sending pairs of free flight tickets to a number of fans. The tickets were delivered by drones hovering outside the winner's...

Iceland's flag carrier is inviting passengers to skip their website and use Facebook Messenger to book flights and Reykjavik stopovers.

TSA may keep you waiting in line, but they've got fast answers for you on line with Facebook Messenger and Twitter channels.

It's not yet a done deal, but a campaign to give Finland a mountain as a gift on the 100th anniversary of its independence is gaining support in Norway. Norway has lots of mountains; Finland is mostly flat. On their common border, Halti rises to 1365 metres, not even one of the top 200 in the country...but one of it spurs, over 40 meters lower, is the highest point in Finland. The proposal, which now has the support of the Norwegian Mapping Authority, would shift the border 20 meters to put...

Travel With Lamb pleads the case against exploitation of Asian elephants