Elephant safari is an easy and common way of traversing the wilderness areas of country informed Erco Travels agent to the tourists, who were watching the huge animal playfully munching on green leaves lunch in front of him. ‘I am not sure if I am more nervous or excited’, whispered a tourist to her husband, who too was equally mesmerised and too dumbstruck to utter a word.

But why elephants exclaimed another tourist, who too couldn’t digest the idea of sitting on such a huge animal. Quite used to this kind of response, Erco Travels agent informed them that elephant safari is used primarily because this makes it easy to move around with ease in the forest and the height of the animal gives one a bird’s eye view of the happenings in the forest, which may not be possible in a vehicle.

The agent further explained how each elephant is fitted with a large seat that can accommodate couple of people with ease. And this manner of travel is not recent in India. Elephants were earlier used by the erstwhile kings to commute and even during wars. These animals are extremely trained and elephant being a very intelligent animal moves well to the commands of his trainer.

True to the explanations of the Erco Travels agent, the elephant safari was indeed a pleasurable trip. Undisturbed by the mechanical roar of a moving vehicle, the animals in the Corbett National Park were very comfortable with the presence of elephants and kept occupied in their daily routine giving the tourists enough time and pleasure to watch them at close quarters and even click them to their hearts satisfaction.