This festival has one of the largest concentration of elephants in one place in the world! It’s held yearly in the Kaziranga National Park of Assam for the conservation and protection of Asiatic elephants. The festival is jointly organised by the Forest Department and Tourism Department of Assam with an objective to highlight and find ways to resolve the increasing man-elephant conflict. Hundreds of domestic Asiatic elephants, decorated from head to toe, participate in the program. They take part in parade, races, football and dance earning praises from the spectators.
