Elephants in the Lobby

the women behind the desk don't look too excited about this arrangement.

Would you be if you were working the desk and that big of a Guest wanted to check in. LOL

Someone call maintenance. Theres a mess in the Lobby that needs to be cleaned up.

that is kind of scary - don't elephants sometimes get agressive?

"The lodge was built and then the elephants started coming through afterwards."

yeah right - that sounds like a load of elephant sh*t to me and more a way to lure the tourists in.

Hopefully one day some fat tourist will get stomped on and they have to close and demolish that stupid hotel.

"I said I wanted a NON-SMOKING ROOM!"

"No, sir. You are not drunk. That is a real elephant."

"Reservation for one under Elephant. I'll take my own trunk up to the room, thank you."

“When they are ripe they come through and they stand about for four to six weeks coming back each day or second day to eat the mangoes.”

How can you tell when an elephant is ripe?

"I reserved a room with a king size bed. Do I look like the kind of elephant that can fit on a twin? No, I didn't think so."

How can you tell when an elephant is ripe?

Just smell. Oooohhhh, the smell!

I think this is just some convenient tourist trap. Think about it who in their right mind would willingly build a hotel on an elephant path and NOT expect elephants to walk through. In that case why do they have doors big enough to accommodate an elephant in the first place!?

I've stayed there. Its an incredibly beautiful hotel, right on the river. The elephants walk right on through because there are no front doors - the building housing the reception desk is completely open. At least this way the elephants can walk on through without breaking anything. They had to fence off the pool to keep a particular hippo out and monkeys roam the grounds.

It costs a bloody fortune to stay there but it is worth every penny.

That hippos is gonna sue. You know what its thinking.

"Oh, the ELEPHANTS can waltz right through, but the HIPPO gets a fence thrown in its face. I see how it is. What if I want a mango or some terrycloth robes HUH?!?!"

Amazing! Maybe the Elephant was checking in :). Great picture we experience a similar thing in http://www.kaingo.com/ last year.

There are tented camps in Tanzania where this happens also, I can often hear elephants, hyena’s and lions outside my tent when I stay in the Serengeti.