A mountain sized Buddha and an elephant trek

After the beach, we went to a place near Pattaya that has a giant laser-etched Buddha on the side of about oh I don't know, a 1,000 foot high mountain/hill. It was a pretty amazing site. After snapping some pics, we looked across the street and noticed some elephants and some people riding these elephants. We loaded into the van and drove across the street to go for an elephant ride. I thought that it would be a five minute, walk around in a circle ride, but no, it was a 30 minute "elephant trek" and was a good ol' time!