Honey, there's an elephant on the porch!

Nowhere in Kerala are you more likely to have an encounter — especially of the close kind — with a wild elephant than in Munnar and its environs. I’ve had several in the 70-odd years I’ve lived in these hills, but none as close — in the truest and most literal sense of the word — as the one I had on June 18 this year right in the old colonial bungalow where my son resides.