A herd of elephants mysteriously upped sticks and left their home in southwest China’s Yunnan province last December. All the while marching north, they strolled through forests, villages and towns, along roads and highways. After 500km they reached Kunming. Theories abound, but nobody really knows why the elephants left their home. Print back page published in June 2021. The project was done with Dennis Wong and Han Huang, from SCMP’s graphics team.