The Sultan's Elephant

Today we took Daisy into town to see The Sultan's Elephant The Sultan's Elephant.
It is a huge (40ft) elephant and a rather large little girl which have been created by theatrical magicians Royal de Luxe.
Both the elephant and the little girl are operated like puppets, The girl is suspended via a mechanical arm and people all dressed in red operate the different parts of her via pully systems from behind.

The elephant supports itself with four men hanging underneath the elephant and with a set of switches they were lifting and placing down each foot when told to by one man walking directly underneath the belly of the elephant, who was instructing which foot should go down next. There was even one man who operated the trunk and huge amount of water that squirted out onto us, we were soaked.
Absolutely fantastic, Daisy was amazed by the little girl but terrified by the elephant, mind you we didn't get that close to the little girl so maybe she would have been scared of the little girl too if she'd seen her up close.