So close you can see elephant eyelashes? Welcome to San Diego’s Elephant Valley

So close you can see elephant eyelashes? Welcome to San Diego’s Elephant Valley

By Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO — Before we see elephants at Elephant Valley in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, we come face to face with destruction, only the wreckage is beautiful. A long, winding path takes guests around and under felled trees. Aged gray tree hunks form arches, for instance, over bridges that tower over clay-colored paths with hoof prints. The design is meant to reorient us, to take us on a trail walked not by hum…