Elephant Ride at Thekkady
Elephant Ride: While in Thekkady we also enjoyed the famous elephant ride. Like us there are many tourists waiting to take the elephant ride. Understand tickets can be bought online, however, we purchased on the spot as not that many people when we went. We were frightened to go for the ride as the elephants are so big and so heavy and tall. Since my children were showing interest finally we decided to take the ride. Though felt little uncomfortable, but its worth taking ride for an experience.
One has to climb the steps where you have a sort of cement platform which is same height of the elephants. We had to hold the ropes and got on the elephant. Since its very wide its uncomfortable to sit as one has to spread the legs. Also the ride is for a bit longer distance and the route is very rough and when the elephant climbing up and down the rough roads you feel as if you may fall. The elephant tok around the forest and finally it brought back to the same place where we had climbed. We followed the same process while climbing down.
It was a memorable visit to Thekkady.