Elephant festival to begin at Kaziranga National Park

GOLAGHAT (Assam): The seventh elephant festival would begins on Monday in Assam's Kaziranga National Park, a world heritage site and home to the highly endangered one-horned rhinos.

Organised jointly by state Tourism and Forest department and Golaghat district administration, 50 elephants would be on display during the four-day event.

The organisers said the highlight of the festival, to be attended by a host of foreign and domestic tourists, would be the "harmony procession" to focus on the topic of man-elephant coexistence.

The aim of the procession would be to aware people the need of protecting the animal's environment and checking the man-elephant conflict that has taken a toll of human as well as elephant lives in the state.

Adventure sports, para-sailing and boat race are among the other events scheduled for the festival.