The 40ft mechanical Sultan's Elephant paraded through London closing roads and drawing thousands of spectators.
The 42-tonne beast is part of a four-day street theatre spectacle passing some of the capital's famous landmarks.
The elephant cooled down some of the crowd on a warm day in London
The show tells the story of a sultan from "far off lands" and his magical time travelling mechanical elephant.
He became tormented in his dreams by visions of a little girl travelling through time and set off on his elephant to find her.
But the girl in his dreams is transformed in the course of his nightmares into a five-metre (16ft) marionette.
The girl then went on a walk taking in the sights of London.
She brought a number of London's busiest streets to a complete standstill
She eventually meets the Sultan and the elephant in Horse Guard's Parade