A real tigre

Kisli, 23-01-1994. Early in the morning the mahouns start their search for tigres. When they find one all the landrovers assemble nearby and the last 30/40 yards are done on top of an elefant. From the relative safety of an elefant s back the tigre can be viewed, photographed and filmed. This is called "tigre show". We saw one this morning, not my first one, and no tigre in a zoo can compete with a real wild one but seeing at laest a 100 local tourists all waiting excitedly for their turn on top of the elefant was one sight nobody had prepared me for.