A grand Pongal Celebration at the Elephant Camp in Topslip.
Coimbatore: Each year the Elephant Pongal is celebrated with grandeur. This year with Covid-19 pandemic at large, the elephant pongal celebrations were banned for public gathering.
There are 28 elephants which are maintained at the Kozhikamuthi Camp near Topslip.These elephants are used as Kumki's to chase wild elephants back into forest areas when they enter the fields and local neighborhoods. These Elephants are also used in elephant safaris during tourist visits in Topslip.
Every year the elephants from the camp are brought to Topslip on the next of pongal where the area tribals make pongal and celebrate it with the elephants as a way of honouring them.
This year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pongal celebrations were held at the Kozhikamuthi Camp. Elephants at the camp were made to stand in line and respect was paid to them by decoration them with garlands.
Tribals and Forest Department Officials joined together at the camp and made pongal in fresh pots. Then they kept elephant's favourite foods like sugarcane, bananas and pongal on a plantation leaf and conducted a pooja for the welfare of the elephants.
Post the pooja, the foods were presented to the 28 elephants at the Kozhikamuthi camp.
Only few public were allowed to be present during the ceremony and the public present were banned from giving any food to the elephants.
There are 28 elephants which are maintained at the Kozhikamuthi Camp near Topslip.These elephants are used as Kumki's to chase wild elephants back into forest areas when they enter the fields and local neighborhoods. These Elephants are also used in elephant safaris during tourist visits in Topslip.
Every year the elephants from the camp are brought to Topslip on the next of pongal where the area tribals make pongal and celebrate it with the elephants as a way of honouring them.
This year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the pongal celebrations were held at the Kozhikamuthi Camp. Elephants at the camp were made to stand in line and respect was paid to them by decoration them with garlands.
Tribals and Forest Department Officials joined together at the camp and made pongal in fresh pots. Then they kept elephant's favourite foods like sugarcane, bananas and pongal on a plantation leaf and conducted a pooja for the welfare of the elephants.
Post the pooja, the foods were presented to the 28 elephants at the Kozhikamuthi camp.
Only few public were allowed to be present during the ceremony and the public present were banned from giving any food to the elephants.