Every Friday at village center they have mossaui market which is similar to our farmers market but with homemade crafts and goods. In Africa there is never a final price. The sellers give you a price and you start to dicker so i was pretty excited as I love to dicker. We walked out of the market with many great souvioners at prices we would be embrassed to say in the states.....so cheap! Will has always wanted a pair for Angola cow horns, while he didn't get exactly what he wanted..he got a pretty cool pair. Tonight we are going to visit the david sheiskel elephant orphanage, which we always hear Samuel talking about. Lyndin has an adopted elephant named Rapa there that we often get updated on so we are excited to actually meet him.
The elephant orphanage is only open from 5 - 6pm for visitors. We didnt arrive until 5:30pm due to their usual traffic so we didn't get to see the elephants coming in for their bottles. The elephants range from a couple years old to 2 years old. The goal is to rehabilitate them to survive in the wild. Each elephant has a keeper with them 24 hours a day. They even sleep in their rooms on bunks. During the day the elephants are able to go into the national park to find food and exercise, then at night they are brought into their pens for safe keeping. The young ones have to be bottle fed every 3 hours.
We were able to see rapa and get some pictures. It was pretty amazing.
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