Week 3 - Elephant attack

A wild elephant attacking a jeep at Muthanga wild life sanctuary, Wayand, Kerala.

Muthanga wild life sanctuary offers wild life safari to the tourists. They take the tourists in jeeps through the forest and we can see wild animals.

During our trip, we saw the elephants standing near the road. Our jeep was the first to arrive at the scene. We stopped our vehicle and waited for the elephants to go away, but they didn’t. Another jeep came after us and the driver of the jeep was courageous to drive near the elephants. However, as the jeep approached the elephants, one of them charged the jeep. The jeep had a narrow escape. On seeing this incident, we and the people in all other jeeps behind us were scared.

We all waited for sometime and the elephants went away from the road to the forest. On seeing this, another jeep drove ahead. But as the jeep reached near the spot where the elephants were initially standing, the elephant came out of the jungle and tried to charge the jeep. Since the driver sped away, they too had a narrow escape. The elephant was actually hiding behind the trees and waiting to attack. This incident scared us even more.

Finally after waiting for about 15 minutes, the elephants went inside the forest. This time after making sure that the elephants had really gone inside, we continued our safari.

In case you haven’t seen, watch this video found in youtube where an elephant attacks a jeep. The people in that jeep really had a scare of their life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWnPiiMKSeM