Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Paravur - Elephant camp

One morning we set out to visit the elephant camp at Paravur.

A little disappointing! Six elephants and all chained...Dashed hopes of gentle elephants roaming around in grassland!

We noticed that they were looked after well by their keepers...


The baby elephant was the saving grace.


The naughty little one kept trying to break free

And this one couldn't stop saluting us and trumpeting as he pushed up his trunk in a salute



Here's the baby elephant's family -


To get there take the route to Paravur off NH 47 near Kollam and ask for directions everytime you see someone on the road (which is noot very often!).