I thought I had taken my last picture of the trip. The camera was capped, and we about to take a cab to the airport, when suddenly an elephant appeared, like magic, on Phnom Penh’s riverside avenue. By the time I was ready to shoot, the elephant was well past me, but that’s where the picture was. I thought it would be incongruous just to show an elephant from behind walking down a city street. I made a picture and hoped for the best. When I looked at the image I was delighted to see that it was even more incongruous than I had hoped. There is a tourist grimly walking towards the elephant and apparently takes no notice of it. Does he see elephants on city streets every day? Or is so determined to get where he is going that he does not even see it? Whatever the answer may be, it is a doubly incongruous image. The image itself may not be a work of photographic art – there are many irrelevant details in it. But the incongruity is so strong that the image survives its aesthetic flaws and is worth including in this gallery about the tourist in all of us. Why was the elephant walking down the street in the first place? I asked our guide, and he said that some tourists enjoy having their picture taken on its back (for a price, of course) and that it is often paraded down this street in search of business! I am certain that this fellow is not a likely customer.