yeah, the dude is sitting on the elephant, you got that right. I didn't notice. However, this is a far cry from the trekking of days before when there was a giant saddle with massive wooden chairs on top of the guy and the only thing they did all day was carry people around and get stabbed in the side of the head with a giant hook as a method of telling them which way to go.
I will be happy when the practice entirely disappears - for now, most of them are already gone and those that are still around are not popular.