Nong Nooch elephants use their built-in water guns
to hose down revelers.
Patcharapol Panrak
Elephants at Nong Nooch Tropical Garden put a twist on Pattaya’s
Songkran celebration, using their built-in water guns to hose down revelers.
Park Director Kampol Tansajja opened the April 12-18 “Songkran and Flower
Festival,” which featured a parade of flowers and water sprinkling on Buddhist
statues.
Twenty elephants participated in the Songkran parade with many spraying tourists
with water.
Nong Nooch marketing chief Jaralit Sodornpermpoonlab said the park was aware the
water coming out of the pachyderm’s noses may not be the cleanest. But, he said,
the park gave full health checks to all the animals prior to the parade to be
sure they were disease-free.
