How much cuteness can a person bear in one day? When 28 rollicking orphan baby elephants come comically trundling down the track all eager to be fed their bottles of milk you can feel your knees trembling with an overdose of cuddly gorgeousness. Tears well up in your eyes and your heart feels like it will melt for these beautiful fun loving creatures who have endured the terrible heartbreak of losing their families.
But they are happy now, you can see it in their faces and their playful actions as they roll about together in the mud and have a grand old time. The wonderful keepers live and sleep with them for about ten years before releasing them back into the wild, so now they have a loving family again and are looked after wonderfully. They develop best friends with other babies and the joy they experience is evident on their faces.
A huge smile was plastered on our faces for long after we left that place.
(Babies can be fostered at www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org)
OMG. That’s got to be a highlight of your trip amongst all the other wonders you have experienced. We are members of the Heldrick foundation and have sponsored quite a few babies over the years. Such a wonderful organisation