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Royal elephants in full splendour

Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 07/11/2013

» At first glance, I thought a white elephant with a pair of long curvy tusks, standing tall and graceful in a royal stable, was real. I was wrong. It is a life-size model of one of Thailand's most important royal white elephants, named Phra Savet Adulyadej Phahana. It is part of a permanent exhibition on two major kinds of royal Thai elephants _ white and auspicious _ at the newly-opened Royal Elephants' Stable Museum at the Chitralada Royal Palace, Bangkok.