London: Tea Time in Wonderland

London is an urban jungle.

The tube proves it. You’ll have to fight for your life at rush hour. Some passengers get so frustrated they actually bare their teeth and roar in despair. Gazelles in high heels will be speeding past you, cutting people’s way, forcing them to snake around obstacles. The doors close on sprinting commuters’ coats like crocodiles’s jaws. I recently read in Underground Facts that a unique race of mosquito actually has evolved down there!

But the wilderness will follow you right to the exit – see this elephant staring at you as get off the last escalator, on the Starbuck side of the station?

It’s been intriguing me for a while. Kendra Haste originally displayed a set of wild animals – this one, a giraffe, a rhino, a vulture and an antilope- in Gloucester Road station in 2000. What a nice change from the usual ads! Have a look here – almost ghost-like.  The structure is entirely made out of mesh wire, superposed layer after layer. Imagine – this elephant actually weighs a ton…

Pssst: look down when stopping at South Kensington. You’ll find monkeys at your feet! Continue the safari @ the Natural History Museum and its garden.

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