I didn't have any more bananas, but she was a good sport about it and even let me shake her trunk! (But that was probably only because her trainer held his stick up in the air and she knew she'd get a gentle whack in the head if she tried to get rough and sniffy with me.)
I totally broke my bunch of bananas in two because I wanted to experience the weirdness of feeling her sniff around my hand and then grab the bananas twice!
After we got back to the camp, our trainer asked us if we wanted to feed our elephant and thank her for the ride! When we said yes, he walker her around a little fence thingy - so that she would get over excited about the food and accidentally trample us to death..
Here's a quick guide to elephant eating: First you reach out and grab the bananas...
When you ride an elephant, you sort of sit on a bench-seat that's tied around the animal's back - but the driver, the driver sits right up on the head! It's totally shocking! It was really neat to watch the trainer get up there - he'd make a clicking sound while standing on the ground and the elephant would bend her knee and fashion a "step" so that the guy was able to climb on up!
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