A couple of weeks ago I was going all Marie Kondo in my house. Though I consider myself to be quite minimalist already we still had some drawers with random stuff in there. As I was going through them and trashing most of the things, I found this frame with my first elephant adoption certificate.…
Yep, today exactly. It’s been a year of hard work. It’s been a year of learning a lot of new things. And it’s been a year. Exactly one year since we stepped on that airplane to Sri Lanka and we said hi to the adventure. I cannot believe one year has passed. You might be…
We looked at each other, decided it was perfect timing and click “Booking confirmed”. Tears started rolling down my face as I started to realize what this meant. We’re going back to Sri Lanka. Yes! Me and my partner in crime, life and business: Mario, are going back to Sri Lanka end of March. Now…
Today I want to share about our experience with wild Elephants and why elephant conservation projects are necessary. Wild elephants are the absolute kings and queens of the jungle. But a unique type. One that lives in harmony with it’s ecosystem. They carry a set of helpers around (for mutual advantages like a crumb of…
If you’ve been following us for a while or ever visited an Elephant sanctuary you might be familiar with Elephant baths. Basically this means an Elephant is put in a river and is being washed and scrubbed. But while in Sri Lanka it made me wonder: is this actually necessary? Wild Elephants aren’t washed and…
By now you probably know that 10% of our profits go back to our ellies in Sri Lanka. So they can be taken care of properly. But you might be wondering where the money goes to. We decided to write down some of the Elephant expenses so you’ll have a better idea of what it…
Talking about elephants I often find out there is still a lot of stuff that people don’t know about them. Sometimes it’s lack of knowledge about very important things like why elephants still wear chains or why they are being held captive in the first place. However I also share fun facts sometimes that surprise…
Elephant Vitamin? Yes, elephant vitamin supplements actually. That’s what we are going to talk about today. Last week Mario wrote a blog post on an elephants diet in a sanctuary like the one we support and also briefly mentioned that elephants do not get all the right vitamins and minerals though this diet as they…
You might wonder, if you can make paper out of their poop, what do elephants eat? In the wild they eat pretty much every single leaf, twig, branch, bark, tree, bush, grass, plant within trunk reach. After all, they need on average anything between 100 and 300 kilograms of food a day depending on their…
This article is for all the women out there who ever wished men had periods. Well, here’s one male species that kind of has it: elephants when they are in musth! This world has become a little fairer, hasn’t it? Bulls (male elephants) get this periodic condition called musth. In this phase their testosterone level…
