Wild elephant makes for a wild ride
What happens when you're sitting in an open safari vehicle and an agitated elephants rounds the bend? At least it's easy to get out and run.
Talk about getting your money’s worth.
Here’s a load of African safari tourists running for their lives from a none-to-happy elephant (in tweet below).
The stuff elephants have to put up with! Good thing there’s a travel ban to give elephants a respite.
The tense situation obviously made for compelling stories when the safari tourists arrived back home, if there were any flights.
Of course, it’s not only elephants you have to worry about . . . .
The guided safari tours I went on were in Toyota Land Cruisers, capable of being open or closed on the sides and top. At most they held five passengers and a driver. They were very maneuverable, but an elephant as big as the one in the tweet video could have crushed one like a grape.
The vehicle in the tweet video has the elevated bench seating, enough for perhaps 10 passengers. It appears to have been in the process of turning around on a narrow dirt road when the elephant wanted to pass. The vehicle looks right for the job, except for being open and needing a fair amount of space to turn around.
The open part I don’t quite understand. What happens when a lion or leopard figures out it’s a cat and becomes curious . . . . (like this).
Here’s my tale of being charged by an elephant. I lived to tell about it.😎