Sri Lanka has a new answer to toll booths -- a tax-collecting elephant. Instead of searching the car for some spare change, you must offer up a tasty snack before Raja allows you to pass. Raja, a ...

Exposition during the British rule. A descriptive account of the first Dalada exposition during the British rule is provided by Major Jonathan Forbes in Eleven Years in Ceylon.Forbes who was privy to ...

Dubai: In Sri Lanka, a traditional road toll has taken an amusing twist as a 40-year-old elephant named Raja has become a self-appointed toll collector.

Elephant's hilarious 'road tax' demand is winning the internet! Watch Raja's adorable antics in this viral video from Sri Lanka. Scroll down to read more.

The male elephant, known in Sri Lanka as Muthu Raja, or Pearly King, and as Sak Surin, or Mighty Surin, in Thailand, was flown directly from the South Asian island nation’s capital to Chiang Mai ...

Sri Lanka has a new answer to toll booths -- a tax-collecting elephant. Instead of searching the car for some spare change, you must offer up a tasty snack before Raja allows you to pass. Raja, a ...

Dubai: In Sri Lanka, a traditional road toll has taken an amusing twist as a 40-year-old elephant named Raja has become a self-appointed toll collector. Along the Buttala-Kataragama road, which ...