ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: It wasn't exactly a stampede, but there were definitely elephants in the street of Nairobi, Kenya. CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh saw the animals and explains why they were there.</s>ALPHONSO VAN MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was an unusual sight in the city streets of Kenya, where traffic jams, pollution, crime, and billboard advertising are the norm: two truck beds of art -- 10 metal elephants -- chugging along to a roundabout near Nairobi's international airport. The elephants are the inspiration of Kenyan artist Kioko Mwitiki and accounting firm KPMG and are part of the city's beautification program. Mwitiki spent nine months collecting scrap metal to build the life-size structures. Elephants are often a must-see on safari at Kenya's numerous game parks.</s>KIOKO MWITIKI, ARTIST: We don't see any art, so this country can be mistaken as a place for dumping things while we know there's so much creativity here. So I'm happy to be involved in a project like this where we have a new face for the city coming up.</s>VAN MARSH: A new face that turned heads as soon as workers unloaded the elephants off the trucks, a new face Mwitiki hopes that will show Kenya is a country of wildlife and art. Alphonso Van Marsh, CNN, Nairobi.
Elephants Turn Heads in Downtown Nairobi