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TRAINING Professional Mahout School Vet Care Programme for mahouts and provision of First Aid Kits Vet training sessions for students and civil servants
Scientific Research Unit & Laboratory
ENSURE FINANCIAL AUTONOMY
TOURISM
Elephant reconversion and creation of new income for mahouts
Revenue raising for conservation activities Treks; elephant discovery & mahout training Elephant Museum
Project’s history The Elephant Sanctuary Co. was established in 2010 by ElefantAsia1 founders Sebastien Duffillot & Gilles Maurer and Green Discovery2 founder, Inthy Deuansavan. ElefantAsia is a France-based conservation group registered in 2001. The objective of ElefantAsia is to protect the remaining elephant population of Laos, formerly known as “The Land of a Million Elephants”. Since 2005, ElefantAsia runs the “Lao Elephant Care and Management Programme” in cooperation with the Department of Livestock & Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture of Laos. ElefantAsia employs 10 persons in Laos. In 2012, ElefantAsia completed their 1500th veterinary care visit and had achieved the registration and microchipping over 400 elephants. ElefantAsia operates in 3 provinces of Laos: Sayaboury, Champassak and Vientiane. In addition to its Veterinary Unit, ElefantAsia is also involved in the production of Environmental Education material and organises the popular Elephant Festival3 every year. In 2012, the Elephant Festival attracted over 150.000 visitors to Sayaboury making it the biggest tourist attraction in the province. In 2006, Inthy Deuansavan, Sebastien Duffillot and Gilles Maurer entered a first partnership for the creation of an upmarket elephant trekking service branded “Elephant Adventures”4. In 2010, all three partners decided to jointly invest in the creation of the first Elephant Conservation Center of Laos. The Elephant Sanctuary Co. (corporate name) was registered as a joint venture in Sayaboury and work started on the banks of the Nam Tien Lake. In October 2011, the Elephant Conservation Center5 opened its doors to the public. The expertise and reputation of ElefantAsia together with the know-how of Green Discovery founder and the tourism development potential in Sayaboury provide a positive context for implementing this new venture.
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http:// www.elefantasia.org http://www.greendiscoverylaos.com http:// www.laoelephantfestival.com http:// www.elephantadventures.com http:// www.elephantconservationcenter.com
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Context Laos is historically known as “The Land of a Million elephants”. Today Laos is home to no more than a mere 800 pachyderms. The largest terrestrial mammal and a major component of Laotian cultural heritage, the Asian elephant is under threat of extinction. Throughout the Asian continent wild elephant populations are threatened because of habitat loss and poaching. Domesticated elephants are often overworked and too tired to reproduce. Population forecasts of Laos’ elephants are grim. If trends continue it is likely that Asian elephants will be extinct in Laos within 30 years. The future also remains bleak for the many mahouts and communities that live and work with elephants. Over 10,000 people depend on the revenue generated by the 450 domesticated elephants working in Laos. The Elephant Conservation Center intends to supply alternative forms of income to mahouts and communities through the reconversion of logging elephants into ecotourism. Ecotourism is an environmentally friendly method of sustainable employment and poverty reduction for mahouts and their communities. The creation of employment for mahouts at the Center in Sayaboury District allows income to be directly injected into the local economy through the provision of accommodation, food, goods and services. These services will all provide jobs for local community members of Sayaboury. The Elephant Conservation Center is NOT a tourist elephant camp. It is a fully staffed and equipped conservation facility providing educational, veterinary and ecotourism services.
Our Project yy Develop a profitable tourism business; yy Develop tourism in Sayaboury province; yy Reconvert logging elephants into fair and environmentally friendly ecotourism; yy Encourage natality by managing an elephant nursery; yy Host ElefantAsia’s veterinary & conservation programmes; yy Provide information on elephants to the public; yy Protect an endangered species; yy Ensure a sustainable income to mahout families; yy Protect ancestral cultures and knowledges and a rich tropical ecosystem. yy Support an environmentally friendly and fair business approach; 4
Our difference The Elephant Conservation Center is NOT an elephant camp. It is much more than that! Our concept is to bring tourists to the elephants and not elephants to tourists. Indeed all elephants currently working in Luang Prabang tourist camps were bought from Sayaboury. We believe conditions in small, town-based camps cannot be ideal habitat for elephants. The food supply, diet, veterinary care and workloads are generally not meeting the standards of basic elephant needs in such camps. The location of the Elephant Conservation Center in the Nam Tien Protected Area allows elephants to roam their traditional environment and feed on natural forest foods with any supplements purchased from local growers. Besides providing the best quality and quantity in food and space requirements, the Elephant Conservation Center is unique in having the elephant conservation organization, ElefantAsia permanently based on site. With a decade of professional elephant care and practice in Laos, ElefantAsia brings a wealth of qualifications and credentials to the conservation center.
Elephant Conservation Center services The Elephant Conservation Center caters to a diverse range of clients including international and national tourists. Attractions at the Center include elephant grooming, feeding, bathing and a Mahout School. Guests participating in the Ecovolunteering package experience life as a Lao mahout from a week to a month. Life at the Mahout School aims to be simple; living, cooking and learning the ancient art of the mahout with all visitors having their own elephant to train with. Visitors to the Elephant Conservation Center are offered 4 options: - Day trips; - Two days / one night stays - Three days / two nights stays; - Six day / five night Eco-volunterring. We are aiming at a diversified clientele. International tourists (groups & individuals), regional tourists (especially from Thailand), foreign residents in Laos, Lao families, schoolchildren (study tours)... The service that we propose is an encounter with the sacred animal of Laos in an authentic cultural and natural environment6. 6
See commercial brochure in appendices
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Our service is not “exclusive” but popular and affordable. In terms of quality, this translates into simple but solid buildings produced according to local designs and construction standards using local materials such as wood. While offering simple comfort and basic facilities in the first construction phase (2011-2012), the Conservation Center will be able to develop new markets by improving standards of buildings planned during the second phase (2013). The Elephant Conservation Center - through its elephant hospital - also offers local and international veterinarians, researchers, and university students the chance to gain hands-on, practical training with Asian elephants. Extended stays by schools and universities are offered on demand.
Sayaboury Statistics by the Lao National Tourism Administration indicate over 1.7 million international tourists visited Laos in 2008. The Sayaboury Province is a region of Lao PDR experiencing a surge in national and international tourists. This province is becoming internationally renowned due to the annual Elephant Festival held in the province every February. Sayaboury is known to be the greatest province in Lao PDR where domesticated elephants can be seen and experienced living in their traditional surrounds. Asian elephants are categorically the niche market of the Sayaboury Province7, with no other tourism ventures currently undertaken in the region. Over the coming few years, Sayaboury will benefit from the ADB Tourism Development Programme (infrastructures, marketing...) that will boost the provincial tourism sector and bring Sayaboury even closer to Luang Prabang, the cultural and tourist hot spot of Laos, which already shows signs of saturation. Indeed, there is a growing interest from tourists and tourism professionals alike for destinations that can be combined with a tour to Luang Prabang. Current ongoing infrastructure development plan includes: • Renovation of the Luang Prabang – Sayaboury road; • Construction of a bridge over the Mekong linking Luang Prabang and Sayaboury provinces; • Construction of a new Kasi – Sayaboury road; • Renovation of the Sayaboury – Paklay – Kenthao – (Thailand) road; • Construction of a new airport in Sayaboury... GIZ and the Lao National Tourism Administration have made Sayaboury one of the target provinces for their national tourism development plan8. 7 Sayaboury is home to 390 elephants (75% of the national stock) 8 http://www.stdplaos.com/web-based/visiter_information/province_inlaos/ sayabouly/sayabouly.html. 6
The Site The site of the Elephant Conservation Center is located on the banks of the Nam Tien lake 8 km from downtown Sayaboury and only 2,5 hours from Luang Prabang by road. The site is a provincial-level protected area consisting of a large artificial lake with many islands, bordered by hilly terrain with dense vegetation and the Phou Xang mountain chain visible on the East. The Conservation Center has been granted a 106 hectares concession (20 years renewable). Built infrastructure occupy a 6 hectares strip of land located on the banks of the lake. The remaining forest area is used to house the elephants and undertake outdoor activities. Access to the site can be by either boat or car.
The Environment The Elephant Conservation Center is built using international standards of environmental and clearing policies. We ensure vegetation connectivity is maintained and factors associated with clearing are minimal. Local and sustainable materials are used in the construction, with energy efficient forms of power generation (solar) and waste management applied. The Elephant Conservation Center is a model ecotourism project in Laos.
Center’s Activities • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Reception and accommodation; Trekking: bareback riding only! and walking with elephants; Elephant Hospital and Nursery guided tours; Visit of the Elephant Museum; Elephant feeding; Elephant bathing; Elephant observation and photo safari; Elephant handling demonstration; Learning how to mount, dismount and ride an elephant; Visit of the botanical gardens and botanical forest trek; Elephant dung paper factory; Souvenir & gift shop; Food and beverages; Lao cooking school; Traditional Lao massage; Lake activities – canoeing, swimming... 7
Staff
Three categories of personnel are working at the Conservation Center. Elephant mahouts, veterinary and hospital workers and hospitality/tourism staff. Each of the three departments have a manager that reports to the Center’s General Manager.
Mahouts
Each elephant working at the camp has one or two mahouts living on site. Mahouts working at the Center are experienced mahouts with a long standing tradition of elephant handling. They are overseen by the Mahout Chief for any matters related to their employment or elephants.
Veterinary Unit / Lab
Staff employed at the elephant hospital are both Lao and foreign staff. The hospital is managed by ElefantAsia with no cost supported by the the Center apart from the Chief Vet’s salary. Foreign veterinarians and researchers join the hospital for medium/long term internships.
Hospitality / Tourism
Staff in charge of hospitality at the Center include guides, housekeepers, cooks, drivers, gardeners and maintenance personnel.
Building
The land available for construction is approximately 6 hectares. Work began on site in December 2010 PHASE 1 - COMPLETED - (2011):
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1 Road (3,5 km); Maintenance storage room (Gardener, carpenter...); 1 Dormitory (with 5 partitioned double rooms); 9 huts (double & twins); 1 Museum/reception/gift shop; 1 Restaurant & kitchen (30 seats + WC); 1 Panoramic Sala; 2 Amenities (showers & WC); 1 Elephant Hospital and treatment area; 1 Mahouts Training Center; 1 Enclosure for pregnant elephants, young mothers & babies (nursery); 1 Reproduction area with electric fencing; Elephant Yard; Elephant Saddlery; Feeding trays and drinking troughs; Stairs & platforms to climb on the elephants; Staff lodging; Boat pier + boat;
Power yy Power system combines solar and diesel generator to regulate consumption peaks. Water yy Water supply system; yy Waste management system; Transportation yy yy yy yy
1 Land Cruiser S78 car; 2 motorbikes; 1 Boat (15-20 Pax); 1 traditional canoe with engine;
Administration & sales yy 1 Office/Administration (rented house downtown Sayaboury); PHASE 2 - (2012-2013): yy 1 Guest House (6 double rooms w/ bathrooms + 1 office space). See architecture project overleaf. yy 2 Observation Towers; yy Technical storage room (laundry, storage, maintenance) Power yy Solar systems; Transportation yy Minivan 12 seater; Administration & sales yy 1 Sales office in Luang Prabang
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Nam Tien Lake
Joyful...peaceful
Natural Feeling
...Come meet them at home.
Come meet the elephants in their natural habitat...
The stunning landscape makes for a perfect natural retreat. Cruise on the lake on a bamboo raft, explore the jungle or simply sit on a viewing platform and observe baby elephants as they graze and socialize! The Center will give you a taste of Laos you will never forget. As calm and beautiful as the elephants, the Elephant Conservation Center is above all a place where YOU can make a difference with your visit.
Get ready for total immersion into the world of Lao elephants at the only conservation facility entirely dedicated to the sacred giants of Lane Xang, the “Land of a Million Elephants”. Established in partnership with ElefantAsia conservation group, the Elephant Conservation Center will offer you the experience of a lifetime...
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Nam Tien Lake, Sayaboury District Sayaboury Province, Lao PDR
Drive north along the Mekong River (turn left after Wattay Airport in Ban Sikhay) to the crossroads just before Sanakham. There, turn right to Paklay. Once you have reached the end of the road, board the ferry to Paklay. Getting to Paklay takes approximately 4 to 5 hours depending on road conditions. Once in Paklay, continue north to Sayaboury (3 hour drive). Flights are also available twice a week (Tuesday and Friday mornings) from Vientiane to Sayaboury.
From Vientiane:
Drive south along the N13 South Road. At around 30 km, in Ban Xieng Ngeun, turn right to Sayaboury. After about 1.5 hours, board the ferry to Sayaboury province. There, you are only 30 minutes away from downtown Sayaboury. Call us on arrival!
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Brochure
The Center has been established in the pristine province of Sayaboury, homeland to over 360 registered domesticated elephants and the second largest population of wild elephants in Laos. Set in a forested peninsula banking the breathtaking Nam Tien lake, the Center offers a wide range of activities taking you up close with the majestic elephants and their offspring. Our range of facilities can accommodate your stay from a day up to a month. So, come experience the “Way of the Mahout”.
Through the mist of dawn, they appear, giant monotone silhouettes rolling slowly from the jungle towards the smoky lake. One by one, they enter the tranquil waters of the Nam Tien to bathe. Leisurely, they are joined by other members of the herd, this gentle procession’s silence broken only by the distant sound of the calves trumpeting. Welcome to the Elephant Conservation Center. A jungle hideaway hosting ElefantAsia’s innovative elephant nursery and hospital.
1 DAY VISIT
From Sayaboury
From Luang Prabang
Transportation, meals & accommodation are included.
This package is your gateway to the Elephant World! During the week, you will share the life of a mahout and learn the basics of this centuries-old craft. Activities include support work at the Center and hospital; feeding the elephants; assisting the mahouts in all the phases of their working day. An in-depth encounter with the Giants of Laos.
From Sayaboury
6 DAY ECO VOLUNTEERING
Transportation, meals & accommodation are included.
In addition to the above activities included in 1 Day Visit, you will have the chance to meet the veterinary team who will accompany you around the hospital and nursery. Take the opportunity to feel closer to the elephants by joining them and their mahouts in the forest to partake in their morning ritual. As you stroll together with these magnificient creatures into the dense forest of Nam Tien, take a moment! This is the REAL land of elephants! Feeding, grooming and bathing are among the activities that you will undertake, completed by a thorough visit of the museum. An assessment relating to your knowledge of the elephant and skills learnt will complete your basic mahout training!
2 DAY VISIT
Transportation and lunch are included.
Come, be a part of elephant conservation in Laos. Departing early morning from your guesthouse in Sayaboury, your day visit will begin with a guided tour of the Center, learning about the conservation projects undertaken by our team of experts. Then you will attend the elephants’ breakfast. After lunch at our restaurant, you will have opportunity to join the mahouts and elephants on their daily walk in the surrounding forest. Departure is from the pier, where our boat will take you for a short cruise on the Nam Tien lake, but not before observing playful elephants enjoying an afternoon bathe.
Book NOW on www.elephantconservationcenter.com
www.elefantasia.org
The Elephant Conservation Center is supported by ElefantAsia non-profit association. For more information on the work ElefantAsia undertakes at the Center, check out:
The Center
See our website for further details or contact us through our volunteer booking form.
Long term volunteering includes meals and accommodation.
The Center welcomes volunteers of all ages, our only requirement is commitment! Working alongside elephants is highly demanding and we will need the very best of your imagination, skills and personality. In return, we will guarantee that no other place in Laos will offer you such an opportunity as the Center for hands on experience, learning and fun.
Come join our international team and conserve the elephants of Laos.
Be the difference!
• Overall the Center is a place of learning.
• Our facilities are ecologically friendly utilising solar power and water from the lake which we filter. We produce elephant dung paper and our brochures are produced using recycled paper. To reduce the use of new building materials, our infrastructure uses old traditional Lao houses relocated to the Center;
• Our elephant hospital & nursery are staffed by professional vets;
• The Center’s elephant welfare policy is implemented by ElefantAsia;
• Our elephants inhabit 106ha of protected forest providing sufficient quantity and variety of natural fodder;
• The money you pay not only sustains the Center and its residents. But 5% is repaid to elephant conservation projects in Laos. We are the only company in Laos to fund conservation action for ALL elephants across the country;
• Elephants at the Center are here to rest, either waiting to give birth or recovering from an exhausting life in logging or mass tourism industries. Do NOT expect to see package tours riding our elephants all day long!
• Rather than taking elephants from their natural home into urban tourist areas, we take YOU to THEM, in their undisturbed natural environment;
How we are different?
Not just another elephant camp...
Founders Mr. Inthy Deuansavan From humble beginnings Mr. Inthy Deuansavan’s life has been a ‘bona fide rags to riches’ story. Born in a cave during the Lao revolution some 40 years ago, Inthy moved from the Huaphan Province and was raised in Vientiane. A natural hard worker, Inthy’s first job was selling cigarettes door to door as a young boy. Recognizing Inthy’s entrepreneurial potential, his father, a famous Lao novelist, spent his life savings ensuring Inthy received the best educational opportunities available. Such opportunities lead Inthy to the former USSR where he received his degree in Statistics from the University of Moscow. After completing his studies, Inthy returned to Laos and undertook his first and still highly successful enterprise, the famous Vientiane restaurant Khop Chai Deu. This restaurant is one of the most well-known and popular meeting points for both foreigners and locals alike. Still keen to expand his knowledge and passion for innovation, Inthy co-founded Wildside, a whitewater rafting and kayaking company, in 2000. It was through Wildside that Inthy developed his fervor for the tourism industry, and soon begun to run his own travel company. Inthy independently launched what is now regarded as the leading eco-tourism and adventure travel specialist tour operator in Laos: Green Discovery Laos. Starting with just one office in the Vientiane capital, Green Discovery now has seven offices in six provinces in northern, central and southern Laos. Offering treks, elephant rides, kayaking, home-stay, motorbike tours and more, Green Discovery has everything to cater for any visitor’s needs in Laos. While many people would settle down after reaching this degree of success, Inthy still has a multitude of ideas for innovative products to instigate. He continues to open more unique restaurants, and developed a chain of high-end boutique hotels. Named after his eldest daughter, the Inthira Group calls now four hotels in different cities throughout Laos its own. Always on the move, Inthy is right now in the process of realizing his dream of the ‘ultimate resort’ in southern Laos. This resort endeavors to include quality tree house accommodation with zipline adventures, while still maintaining the beauty and tranquility of Laos plus the superior hospitality that Inthy’s companies are renowned for. More than just a businessman, Inthy has ensured all of his companies strictly abide by their social, cultural and environmental responsibility. This excellence in tourism was demonstrated when Inthy was elected as a member to the Board of the Lao Tourism Association in 2008. Far from his first job as a cigarette vendor, Inthy now presides over his conglomerate of Lao-based companies and more than 300 Lao people are directly employed in this group he created. The future? One thing is for certain: Inthy will not rest and certainly continue to be a champion in providing innovative tourism and hospitality services to clients from all over the world visiting the Lao PDR.
MM. Sébastien Duffillot and Gilles Maurer Sebastien Duffillot and Gilles Maurer founded the charity group ElefantAsia back in 2001. In 2002 the two frenchmen organized a 1,300 km long journey on elephant back across Laos, the former ‘Land of a Million Elephant’. This ‘Elephant Caravan’, as the public knows it, received strong media coverage in France and Asia and led the two partners to seek funds for the implementation of a nation-wide elephant conservation programme. Since 2005, ElefantAsia has opened an office at the National Animal Health center (Department of Livestock & Fisheries). The charity now employs over ten people, mainly vets, who undertake registration of all domesticated elephants of Laos, provide on-site training to their mahouts and provides free veterinay care to the 450 or so working elephants of Laos. In order to invert the trend that is leading Lao elephants to extinction, Gilles and Sebastien have created innovative new conservation solutions ranging from Baby Bonuses for pregnant elephant owners to the organisation of the now famous ‘Lao Elephant Festival’ which pays tribute to the national animal emblem of Laos every year in the sayaboury province. ElefantAsia has since then grown in stature and is now recognized worldwide as one of the leading elephant conservation groups with in-situ operations in Asia. Partnering with Thai elephant conservationists and building a network of partners in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar, ElefantAsia is becoming one of the main actors in the field of elephant conservation in SouthEast Asia. With several international media broadcasting documentaries on the work undertaken by ElefantAsia in Laos (BBC, Animal Planet, all major French TV channels) and an outstanding number of publications in international newspapers and magazines (Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, le Monde etc...), the media buzz generated by the non-profit is now serving the latest, and most elephantine - project of the team: the first-ever Elephant Sanctuary of Laos. This new venture is aiming at offering a shelter to pregnant cow elephants and their offsrping when they are born, while providing all working elephants of the Sayaboury province with a state-of-the-art elephant hospital capable of treating patologies that the current mobile clinics are unable to handle while working in logging camps.
Lao Elephant Sanctuary Co. Ltd. Nam Tien Protected Area Sayaboury, Lao PDR Tel: + 856-30-9471308 Mob: +856-20-96590665 Email: seb@elephantconservationcenter.com Marketing@elephantconservationcenter.com
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Trip Advisor: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g2642380d2624675-Reviews-Elephant_Conservation_Center-Sayaboury.html Facebook: elephant conservation center Twitter: laoselephantCC
ECC online resources: • •
Presentation document of the ECC: http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/presentation_ecc_2012?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222 ECC Rate Card 2012-2013: http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/rate_card_ecc_2012_2013?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222
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Elephant Conservation Center official Website: http://www.elephantconservationcenter.com/index.php
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ECC Brochure: http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/brochure_ecc_new?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222
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ECC Trip Advisor page: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g2642380-d2624675-Reviews-Elephant_Conservation_Center-Sayaboury.html
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ECC Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/elephant-conservation-center/123614824388181
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ECC Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KPm-m6Mps
Travel Guides & Magazines articles on ECC : • • •
Lonely Planet travel guide (excerpts): http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/lonely_planet?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222 Le Petit Futé travel guide (excerpts): http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/petit_fute?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222 Magazine Article on ECC (Champa Holidays, Laos) : http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/42-45_final?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222
ElefantAsia, Elephant Adventures, Elephant Festival related resources: •
ElefantAsia official website: http://www.elefantasia.org/?lang=en
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ElefantAsia facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ElefantAsia/133225699727
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Elephant Adventures Co. website: http://www.elephantadventures.com/
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Elephant Adventures Co. facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elephant-Adventures/119740024734476
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Lao Elephant Festival website: www.laoelephantfestival.com
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Land of a Million Elephants website: http://www.landofamillionelephants.com.au/
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Land of a Million Elephants (film) Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/landofamillionelephants
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Land of a Million Elephants video link: http://vimeo.com/34489947
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Youtube video of Lao Elephant Festival 2010 in Sayaboury : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mb40zTcyqE