Cute Elephants Spark Interest in Travel to Yunnan in Holiday

A herd of 15 wild Asian elephants in Southwest China's Yunnan Province has gone viral on Chinese social media, with netizens adoring their adorable characteristics, such as how they settle down for a nap after a hard migration. Wandering around the outskirts of the city of Kunming, the elephant herd has netizens clamoring to head there during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday this weekend. 

云南一群向北迁徙的野象，不仅火爆全网，国人纷纷“观象说象”，还引发众多外媒关注，让全世界看到云南各地的妥善应对，感受到中国政府和民众对野生动物的爱护。

Drone footage of an elephant herd relaxing in Kunming's Jinning district went viral on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo on Monday, garnering more than 200 million views as of Thursday. Many internet users referred to the herd as "too cute," and even related their sleeping stance to the recent popular tangping, or "lay flat," meme, a viral joke that depicts individuals lying down to rest, which today's frustrated youngsters have been adopting to portray their resignation to life's challenges.

"Those cute elephants are really as tired as we city people who work every day and just want to get rid of the stress and 'lie flat' there," posted a netizen on Sina Weibo.   

"I'm being attacked by their cuteness, and want to quietly bring them some blankets while they sleep," posted another. 

Footage of the elephants laying around hasn't been the only source of entertainment provided by the herd, videos of the baby elephants falling over or playing around have also attracted netizens' attention on Sina Weibo, kindling some people's curiosity toward Yunnan Province and desire to travel there during the Dragon Boat Festival to see for themselves the province's representative animal, even if they don't get a chance to see this particular herd. 

"Ticket booked. Although whether or not I see the herd very much depends on my luck, I'm traveling to Kunming anyways, even if it's just to see the elephants at the zoo," posted one netizen on Sina Weibo. 

"We plan to drive ourselves from Guiyang to Kunming on Sunday and stop at the local zoo to see Yunnan's elephants because my daughter got so into the images of the wild Asian elephants on TV, I think it is a good opportunity to have her learn more about animals and nature," Wang Qiujing, a 36-year-old mom in Guiyang, Guizhou Province said.

While elephants are on everyone's minds due to the viral videos, people's love for Yunnan's representative animal has always been there, attracting not only outsiders but also locals. 

"If you really love them, please don't follow them around. Visiting a zoo is the better option instead of disturbing those elephants that are migrating," Zhu, an animal protection expert, warned.  

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Source: Global Times

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