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So far my elephant hunting score is 1/1.

I'm considering making a website to track them all down, since the pdf map is so poorly designed.

We headed to Trafalgar Square - only to be disappointed. And although it looked as if there was a veritable herd in the Covent Garden area we only found three, not including the one that the map claimed was in the Piazza....
I also thought they would be bigger. I'm sure I remember the cows being almost lifesize.

Not a patch on the Superlambananas.

Not supplying a purchasable map does seem to be a major error...shame.

My solution has been to save the pdf, open it in Photoshop (I'm sure there are other programs that can open pdfs)and break it into more useful A4 sizes.

Agree totally about the map, although part of me thinks it'll be more charming trying to hunt down the elephants without precise locations. Of course, I have to try and spot them all.

Speaking to an installer yesterday, it seems that they're a little behind schedule. The Traf Square ones are probably going up today.


And, indeed, they are there now - they've just been featured on BBC London News.

(I think a Google Maps mashup seems like not such a bad idea...)

Sounds a bit like the pianos dotted round London last year. I failed to spot even one, despite your post about them!! It sounds like they'll still be there when we visit next month, so I'll keep me eye open for them. :)

I hope they have a better map recording the locations than the one on the website, otherwise there will be a fair few missing when the herd goes on display at Chelsea Hospital.

There are meant to be two elephants at St Pauls. I've only found one. How can I miss an elephant?!

Saw one at the Elephant (appropriately) and two at the north end of London Bridge

I saw the two at London Bridge north as well and they did elicit a broad smile. I'd love to get my hands on a miniature of the one resplendent in peacock feathers in particular.

I never thought I would face the problem of too many elephants. I feel cheated. I was there first. My 34 are now enfeebled.

The two at the end of London Bridge are nice, and More London is worth a visitfor quantity as well as quality. There's an elephant with little elephants inside it.

Very tempted to go and see this one, as published in the londonist pool.


I found two elephants outside the National Theatre on the South Bank, and also saw a really rather impressive 24 on the steps of Trafalgar Square, including Cameron, Clegg and Brown. The Trafalgar Square elephants obviously were put there inbetween your visit and mine.

I suspect they have changed the map.

I just printed the first 2 pages straight from the web link and it printed as 2 A4 colourful pages that seem quite usable.

The elephant positions are a bit 'representational' but I suppose that's part of the fun. Useful at least to know the pachyderm dense areas - largely the same areas that tourists congregate...

Anyone who wants the textual descriptions from the map, I've extracted them to a spreadsheet - here.

I think they are actually Guerilla elephants. There were lovely pictures all over the press showing the ones in trafalgar square yesterday. I went there today- not a single elephant nada zip. BUT they were erecting the statue on the fourth plinth of that RAF guy whose name escapes me

Yes, they've changed the map, and it's a lot more manageable. So long as you don't mind printing out a seven page list of elephants.

We met three on the Embankment, in the gardens, side by side (will add a picture to my blog entry) plus the men unloading them. They said, 'There were a lot at Trafalgar Square, now there are fewer' - we still found some there. They also said there are very good ones 1) in Burlington Arcade and 2) at the Natural History Museum. We went to Burlington Arcade and it hadn't got there yet (this was mid-afternoon Tuesday). I got the impression they were not all there (saw none at Covent Garden). Nice jewelled one inside Coutts Bank, nice Indian one outside the India High Commission at the Aldwych.

I completed the set of elephant shops - asked for a map at the Greenwich Market one and they also seemed surprised I would want one. They even started listing elephant locations to me, but I stopped them pretty quickly as my lunch break's only one hour ;)

I visited Norwich for a weekend to bag all the elephants - really enjoyable, and a shame that the London elephant people didn't speak to them for advice. They did a nice commemorative booklet of them too.

I volunteered to help put them up. Got up at 6am on Sunday to get to Waterloo for 7:30am. The disorganisation was so bad that they left me standing at the Southbank Centre to wait for an elephant to be delivered - I was in the rain alone for over an hour and eventually left. I have a cold now and am not impressed. Though credit to the artists - they look fantastic.

There are elephants in Trafalgar Sqaure - not in the numbers that were featured in the press the other day and not where you'd expect to see them. They're on a traffic island on the south side of the square near the top end of Haymarket and nowhere near the main square.

Oh, I´m really sorry that I can´t go and hunt a few elephants for myself as you did.

I still haven't come across an elephant. I am determined to find one tonight.

I'm up to 69 on my flickr photostream now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mykreeve/sets/72157623984860668/

Pleased to see that the Elephant Parade have corrected a lot of errors in elephant locations in both the PDF index and the map, since I started work.

I'm up to 59 elephants so far, planning on going out to hunt down some more later today as well.

I think the whole thing is great fun!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/merialc/sets/72157623894673675/

A lot of the names of the artists on the map appear to be Thai, but there is no mention of these on the web site, unless I have missed something?

Selfridges had a printed map free - we picked up a couple - no problem. I think the publicity may have got ahead of the event.

The elephants are fantastic IMO. I have bought five so far in varying sizes but am finding another two elusive at the moment.

The shop assistants are unfailingly pleasant and helpful so far - which makes a nice change from usual shopping.

It's a good cause anyway, so please don't criticise. I also love it and have got some great photographs.











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