BANGKOK – Christmas and Thailand’s love of elephants combined Wednesday when four of the giant creatures dressed as Santa turned up at a school in Ayutthaya, complete with huge coronavirus masks.
Excited children from Jirasat Wittaya School in the ancient capital an hour’s drive from Bangkok sang Christmas carols and lined up to have their photos taken with the animals in an annual tradition.
This year, however, the elephants — Sri Mongkon, 14, Sri Raya, 6, Peter, 15, and King Kaew, 18 — used their trunks to carry baskets of face masks to the youngsters and motorists outside the school.
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