A few days ago we got up early in the morning, ate breakfast quickly, and were out the door by 8:30 in the morning. We were going to Elephant Camp!
๋ฉฐ์น ์ , ์์นจ์ ์ผ์ฐ ์ผ์ด๋ ์์นจ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋นจ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ 8์ 30๋ถ์ ์ง์ ๋์ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์บ ํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํด์์์ต๋๋ค!
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์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ค์ผ์ค์:
๋จน์ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ
ํ๊ธฐ
๋จน์ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ
๋ชฉ์์ํค๊ธฐ
๋จน์ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ
ํญํฌ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค.
I learned that elephants eat A LOT of food. In fact, they eat 20 hours a day (sometimes while walking or working)! The other 4 hours they sleep.๐ An average adult Asian elephant eats about 770 pounds (350 kilograms) and drink 160 liters of water a day. The babies eat sugar cane and the adults eat banana trees. They like to eat the tree trunks, but they can eat any part of the tree.
์์์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํฉํธ:
์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ์์ฒญ๋ ์์ ์์์ ๋จน๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ค ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฐ ํ๋ฃจ์ 20์๊ฐ (์ด๋จ ๋๋ ๊ฑท๊ฑฐ๋ ์ผํ ๋๋) ์ ๋จน์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋จธ์ง 4์๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ์ก๋๋ค. ํ๊ท ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฅธ ์์์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ฃจ์ ์ฝ 770 ํ์ด๋ (350 ํฌ๋ก)๋ฅผ ๋จน๊ณ 160 ๋ฆฌํฐ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ง์ญ๋๋ค. ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋จน๋ ๊ฑธ ์ข์ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ฌด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค๋ ๋จน์ต๋๋ค.
Before 1975 many elephants fled Laos or were killed because of toxins and bombings. Only 1,200 elephants were left :(, but now there are more :)!
Laos used to be called Lan Xang, meaning Land of a Million Elephants.
All the elephants at the camp are female because male elephants tend to make more trouble, and are harder to control.
Babies are also mischivious, so they have to wait until they are around two or three years old to see the tourists.
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์ด์ ์ ๋
๊ณผ ํญํ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ๋ง์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ผ์ค์ค๋ฅผ ๋ ๋๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฃฝ์์ต๋๋ค. 1200 ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ด ์ด์๋จ์์ผ๋ ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ทธ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ๋ผ์ค์ค๋ ์๋ ์๋ ๋์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ ธ๋๋ฐ ๋ฐฑ๋ง์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ์ ๋
์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ป์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ์บ ํ์ ์๋ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ปท์ธ๋ฐ ์์ปท์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ๊ธธ๋ค์ด๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํ๋ค๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ์๊ธฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค๋ ์ฅ๋์ ์ข์ํ๋ฏ๋ก ๋์ด์ด๋ ์ธ์ด์ ๋์ด์ผ ๊ด๊ด๊ฐ์ ๋ง๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Feeding the Baby Elephants (์๊ธฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋จน์ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ)
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The sanctuary has two baby elephants. One is three years old,the other is four years old. This is me and the three year old baby. She still eats sugar cane stalks, but is learning to eat banana trees.
์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ณดํธ๊ตฌ์ญ์๋ ๋๋ง์ด ์๊ธฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋๋ ์ธ์ด์ด๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ๋๋ ๋ค์ด์
๋๋ค. ์ด ์ฌ์ง์ ์ ์ ์ธ์ด์ง๋ฆฌ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ์
๋๋ค. ์์ง๋ ์ฌํ์์๋ฅผ ๋จน์ง๋ง ๋ฐ๋๋ ๋๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋จน๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ์ค์
๋๋ค. |
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Jina, me, and the four year old baby. She eats only the very inside of the banana tree trunks because it is softer. With Asian Elephants usually only the male elephants have tusks, but for some reason, she has tusks too. The people at the camp said she is 'confused'. If you look closely, you can see them. The tusks are lower than you might think. I read in a book once that elephants, like people, prefer their right or left side. She prefers her left tusk for peeling the outside of the tree trunks. In her mouth you can see the outer part of the inside part of the banana tree, which she pulls off with her tusks and then spits out. I have to admit, she is not exactly a neat eater... there are tree trunk scraps all over the floor!!!
์ด ์ฌ์ง์ ์ง, ์ ์ ์๊ธฐ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋๋์ ์์ชฝ์ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ๋ง ๋จน์ต๋๋ค.. ์์์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ๋ณดํต ์์ปท๋ง ์์๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๋๋ฐ ์ด๋ค ์ด์ ์์์ธ์ง ์ด ์๊ธฐ๋ ์์๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์บ ํ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ง๋ก ์ด ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํท๊ฐ๋ คํ๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ธํ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ณด์ค ์ ์์ ๊ฒ๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์์๊ฐ ์๋์ชฝ์ ๋ฌ๋ ค ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ์ ๊ฐ ์ฑ
์์ ์ฝ์๋๋ฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค๋ ์ผ์ชฝ์ด๋ ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ํ์ชฝ์ ์ ํธํ๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ์๊ธฐ๋ ์ผ์ชฝ ์์๋ฅผ ์จ์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ป์ง์ ๋ฒ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ํธํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์
์์ ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๋ฐ๋๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์์ชฝ ๋ฐ๊นฅ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ณด์ค ์ ์๋๋ฐ ๊ป๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ์์๋ก ๋นผ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฑ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๋ฐฑํ๊ฑด๋, ์ด ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊น๋ํ๊ฒ ์์ฌํ์๋ ์์์ต๋๋ค... ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ฐ๋ฅ ์ฐ๊บผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๊ธฐ ํฉ์ด์ ธ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. |
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This is the four year old again. See her tusks?
๋ค์ด๋ฐ์ด ์
๋๋ค. ์์๊ฐ ๋ณด์ด์์ฃ ? |
Feeding the Big Elephants (ํฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋จน์ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ)
These are two of the riding elephants. They're older and stronger, and eat almost all the banana tree trunks. One elephant gathered up a ton at a time in her trunk to keep for herself without the danger of other elephants stealing 'her' food.
์ด ๋ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์ด๊ฐ ์ข ๋ ๋ง๊ณ ํ์ด ์ธ๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๋ฐ๋๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ๋จน์ต๋๋ค. ํ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ด ์์ ์ ๋จน์ด๋ฅผ ํ์น์ง ์๋๋ก ํ๋ฒ์ ๋ง์ ๋จน์ด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ ๋จน์์ต๋๋ค.
Riding the Elephants (์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํ๊ธฐ)
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This is the building you use to climb on the elephants back, because elephants are so big. Look closely to see me on the building.
์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ด ์๋ ํฌ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ด ๋น๋ฉ์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ฑ์ ์ฌ๋ผํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ฐ์
๋๋ค. ์์ธํ ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๋น๋ฉ์์ ์๋ ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ค ์ ์์ผ์ค ๊ฒ๋๋ค. |
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Me on the elephant saddle. The driver holds the elephant in place while Daddy gets on.
์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์์ฅ์ ์์ ์ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์
๋๋ค. ์๋น ๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋์ ์ด์ ์ฌ๊ฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
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Jina's elephant kept stopping for snacks!
์ง์์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค๋ฅ์ ๋จน๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ณ์ ๋ฉ์ถ์์ด์! |
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The view of the Mekong River.
๋ฉ์ฝฉ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ฒฝ |
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Near the end of the trip, our driver got off to open the gate, but Kamun (the elephant) was a good girl and followed the trail, even with no driver.
์ฌํ์ ๋ง์น ๋ฌด๋ ต, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ๋ จ์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ด๋ ธ์ผ๋ ์นด๋ฌธ(์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ)๋ ๋ง์ ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์กฐ๋ จ์ฌ์์ด๋ ๊ธธ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
Bathing the Elephants (์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ชฉ์ ์ํค๊ธฐ)
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Later, we put on our swim suits and went to bathe the elephants. This time, we sat behind the head of the elephant, without a saddle. I actually felt safer sitting on the elephant than sitting on the saddle, because the saddle tilted a lot.
๋์ค์, ์์๋ณต์ ์
๊ณ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ชฉ์์ ์ํค๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ์์ฅ์์ด ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ ๋ค์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฅ์ด ๋ง์ด ๋น๋ค์ด์ ธ ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์์ฅ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ค ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก์ต๋๋ค. |
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We took turns bathing the elephants, three elephants at a time. You pour water on the elephants back and head, and sometimes the elephant went underwater with just the trunk poking out of the water to let the elephant breathe. That is why Mommy looks like she is swimming. She's actually sitting on her elephant, who's underwater.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฐจ๋ก๋ก ์ธ๋ง๋ฆฌ์ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ์์์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ์ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฑ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ถ๊ณ ์ด๋จ ๋๋ ์จ์ฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ฝ๋ง ๋ฐ์ ๋ด ๋๊ณ ๋ฌผ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ์์ ํ ๋ชธ์ ๋ด๊ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋ง๊ฐ ์์์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ค ์๋ง๋ ๋ฌผ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋ต๋๋ค.
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After bathing the elephants, we showered quickly and prepared to go to the waterfall - our next stop, and my next post.
์ฝ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ์์ํจ ํ, ์ค์๋ฅผ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ง์นํ ๋ค์ ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ ํฌ์คํธ๊ฐ ๋ ํญํฌ์ ๊ฐ ์ฑ๋น๋ฅผ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
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