Tourists play with elephants in Phuket

Mena, a 1-year old female elephant, entertains a tourist with its trunk at a hotel where the 42nd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting is being held Monday, July 20, 2009 in Phuket, southern Thailand.

A young tourist is photographed beside Lilly, a three-year-old elephant, at a beach resort in Phuket on Monday July 20, 2009.




A young tourist watches as a mahout, not seen, baths Mena, a one-year-old elephant at a hotel in Phuket, southern Thailand.