The 40ft mechanical Sultan's Elephant paraded through London closing roads and drawing thousands of spectators. The 42-tonne beast is part of a four-day street theatre spectacle passing some of the capital's famous landmarks. The elephant cooled down some of the crowd on a warm day in London The show tells the story of a sultan from "far off lands" and his magical time travelling mechanical elephant. He became tormented in his dreams by visions of a little girl travelling through time and set off on his elephant to find her. But the girl in his dreams is transformed in the course of his nightmares into a five-metre (16ft) marionette. The girl then went on a walk taking in the sights of London. She brought a number of London's busiest streets to a complete standstill She eventually meets the Sultan and the elephant in Horse Guard's Parade Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next



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