down the trunk

elephant slide

trkr enjoying a fun moment at the end of an elephant's trunk with a cute Korean boy. The boy is wearing a mask to filter out the 'yellow dust' (loess dust) flying around from the Gobi Desert. In fact, many people at the zoo today were wearing these surgical masks. I used to think it was to prevent the spread of colds but learned today that they also wear them to filter out the yellow dust.