A one of a kind experience of a girl as young as 14 years of age.

A family vacation to Jim Corbett National Park kept her excited throughout the swaying journey in the train!

She was well-equipped for the jungle Safari in an open jeep! A first time for her.

When the morning came, she totally felt like she was in a movie!

In an open-jeep, dense jungle on both sides and a winding track for jeeps to strictly follow!

A guide and a driver to assist and instruct throughout the tour. It was a nice beginning.

Until came the time when the guide announced that they were deep in the woods to keep their eyes and ears open for the Tigers!

Only a few moments later, instead of tigers, there was a fleet of elephants crossing over the tracks from on side to the other.

Now, what adventure was there to see a fleet of elephants crossing by, right?!

So, the driver relaxed by turning his jeep off and resting on his bonnet and the guide reluctantly stared along with his tourists.

With no prior indication, the elephant last in the fleet gave an extremely loud grunt and started running towards the jeep!

Thanks to the driver’s swiftness and presence of mind, he started the jeep in no time and ran on reverse for about 500 metres!

All the tourists could see, as they drove for their lives, was a cloud of dust.

And all they could hear, were loud thumps and grunts of the elephant!

The jeep bumped on to a huge rock but thankfully landed safely back on the ground, while the father hugged his daughter and the wife tight!

After another 5 seconds, the elephant stopped chasing.

Still, the driver only stopped a few metres away, after making sure it was safe enough!

It took a while before everyone recovered of the shock and could speak again!

While the little girl had an experience of a lifetime so early in her life, her mother whispered prayers of relief and her father checked if she was hurt because of the rough ride!

Other tourist jeeps nearby had heard the loud grunts of the elephant and had hurled towards the location.

They started asking what had happened and the driver took pride in narrating his expert escapade…

It decides to come for us!

Starts the chase...

The jeep is on reverse and picks up speeds...

We, thankfully, lose it!