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| In the adjacent country Cambodia also has some tourist centres using elephants for tourist attraction. But Cambodia a war ravaged country for long time is slowly building this up. There are road signs similar to the one, which we used, have “School go slow” with a child running with shoulder bag. (Now those boards are not common, probably they will have to show a caricature of Dobie’s donkey, the plight of present child labour!) These road signs means that there is elephant ride available there and you can stop the vehicle and look around for the elephant and the stepladder and platform to get on to the elephant. Sri Lanka is not lagging behind in any way, in promoting elephant based tourism. They attract people, especially Buddhists for the Buddhist festivals like perahera (Pooram!), for which a large number of elephants are paraded. The Kandy perahera is just over. Kandy is the temple where Lord Buddha’s tooth is kept. the Ratnapura perahera is during Onam days. Fifty to sixty elephants participate in these festivals. In Sri Lanka most of the elephants are mahknas (tusk- less males). Elephants are decorated with elaborate ornamental clothes, and they even put serial bulbs on elephants, an interesting sight to see. The ears are covered with silk satin cloth. Copra baskets replace our oil torches in the processions. The elephant riding sites in Sri Lanka are small but are many and spotted in several parts of this island nation. The spots will have number of informative materials about elephants, which includes literature, diagrams, photographs etc. Hands on experience is also are provided. I saw a couple. One of them helps the mahout in scrubbing the elephant while the spouse videogrphs it. These riding facilities also provide food and refreshments, some places with beer and toddy in canned form. Many places make biogas as well as value added products like paper and handicrafts made out of elephant dung pulp. Diagrams and charts, as well as parts of elephant body, mostly bony portions like skull, teeth, vertebrae etc. are exhibited. Previous Next |
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