Sunday, November 14, 2010

Meet Fabio Preti, the Swiss mahout in Jaipur, India...




Being an elephant driver in fast-developing India isn’t the most popular job among young people.

Yet Fabio Preti, a Swiss, has chosen this original career path. Sitting astride a bare-backed elephant, as motorbikes honk and buses try to overtake, he tells swissinfo.ch why he chose this job and wouldn’t swap it for anything in the world.

“It was a childhood dream,” he said. “My first drawing was an elephant, my first cartoon and book were The Jungle Book.” More...

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