Elephants, Amber Fort

Cameleer

Elephants around the Amber Fort.
For all those who love elephants you should get a kick out of viewing this webpage. I still have more work to do on it like adding sound, video clips, more info along with some elephant smell too. Ok, I haven’t figured out how to add smell but with these VR Photos it’s almost like being there! Enjoy

http://www.camelphotos.com/elephants.html

ba9rn

Beautiful - excellent quality.

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tasuray

Riding an elephant in ambar Fort charges Rs.550/= for two person.

ba9rn

I like your ability to see into the future, too. (The last two VR titles show the date as December 2007!)

tongoka

Beautiful pictures, brings back lovely memories...

tacita

are the elephants here cared for adequately?

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ba9rn

They seem to be. We did not ride an elephant to the fort (it's an easy stair climb for humans anyway - the elephant route is slightly longer), but our driver suggested we might like to visit one of the elephant houses. They appeared to be well fed and looked after. The highlight was a 3 month old baby to oggle at.

Here is the baby suckling (mum was tucking into a some maize):

machadinha

I think it's Cameleer himself who indicated at some point all is not always well with them J.

His history is a little extensive to look it up for you though. Might interest you all the same as an animal lover.

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Drews60

Thanks you Cameleer for your post and pics. Now I have something else to place on my itinerary. I can hardly wait.

Cameleer

There is good and bad almost everywhere when it comes to working with animals, and remember India is still a third world country with a lot of people making their living working with these animals. Here in the States we can spend 3 million dollars fixing up a place for the elephants at the zoo. But remember we are talking about the streets and small towns of India here.

Here is one of the places that they keep elephants:
Kite Festival rooftop view from in Jaipur as thousands of kites are doing battle in the sky!
Looking down you will also see 3 elephants, and a horse below the tarp (most of this person’s elephants are kept in Amber now), a goat wearing a t-shirt (the belief is “if you’re cold the animals cold too”) Over to the right there’s one more elephant and above that is a camel laying down.
Here is the large 360 virtual reality photo showing it all, Flash 9 is needed to view it.
http://www.indiavrtours.com/jaipur/kite.html

I’m going back to India around the end of November and hope to spend some time around the dancing bears (if I can find some) to find out the good and bad of it all.

Cameleer
http://www.indiavrtours.com/

burbujasdeamor

Thanks so much for that awesome 360deg photo!!!!!
Loved it! even though I got "sea sick" viewing it
Now, I can't wait to get there in November/December.

Cheers!

Cameleer

Here is a small fast loading VR panoramic photo of the elephants resting in the barn below the Amber Fort, you can also open up a very large full screen view of it too.
http://www.indiavrtours.com/jaipur/elephants_s.html

burbujasdeamor

What? Only a 180deg view?!?!

I'm going to PM you with a question about your equipment, I mean, camera...

Cheers

Cameleer

Ok here’s one more small quick loading VR panoramic photo showing the elephants unloading tourist at the top, near the entrance of the Amber Fort. If you decide to view the full screen one I hope you have a high speed connection and make sure to click on the button that makes it true fell screen.
http://www.indiavrtours.com/jaipur/fort4.html

ba9rn

When was that one taken? They now unload in the courtyard, next to the ticket office....