Chitwan Jungle Experience Day 2

Anthony is still sick with what seems like a flu. He stayed at the resort to rest. 4 of our group went out for another 3 hour jeep ride in a different part of the Jungle, more known for tiger sightings. We saw 3 more rhinos, several deer and lots of the rhesus macaque monkeys, mongoose & a variety of birds. On the way back we stopped at a local shop where they make paper products out of elephant dung. Anthony is still fighting a fever so he decided not to come into the jungle for the night. We rode in the older dugout canoe on the river to our Jungle Tower to sleep for our final night here. We arrived to the canoe spot to see elephants with the saddles and people riding them. Not many do this anymore. We had little hand carved chairs for the canoe ride. It was relaxing on the river and we all wished it was longer ( only 20 minutes to the tower). We saw crocodiles on the way. There was a lot of soil erosion due to the monsoon rains.
We have our guide, Gopal and a guard with us for the night. We arrived to a 3 story tower and a herd of spotted deer in the field next to the tower. 5 of us stayed on the upper floor in 2 separate rooms and 3 on the middle level. Our guides, on the first level slept very little as they were animal spotting throughout the night. We even had Western toilets that flushed😀👌 The guard promptly closed a trap door to the bottom and chained it shut so nothing could come up in the night😳 The guard showed us a video of a sloth bear trying to open the trapdoor on a separate occasion. We started the night by seeing 3 rhinos in the distance, 2 male Peacocks, 2 female Peacocks and more deer. We had 2 rhinos come through close to the tower, 1 male and 1 female. Pretty quickly they started some loud grunts as if they were fighting. The male was interested in the female but she was not reciprocating. The sounds were really loud and she was moving away with the male in pursuit! We watched so many fireflies in the field and trees, it was magical.
We had a meal of chapati, masala vegetables, chicken and rice by candlelight. As we all settled into our beds under bug nets, Gopal called us out to see more deer and while we were out there 3 rhinos came across the river and close to the tower, a mom, her baby and a male rhino. The mom smelled the poop from one of the earlier rhinos and she promptly pooped in the same spot with a little kick of her back leg and then the baby copied mom and did exactly the same including the leg kick. It was so funny and rather cute. Before long, the mom and the male started getting into a scuffle with mom protecting the baby. We are seeing and hearing these intense altercations that are rare to catch. We have now seen 16 rhinos🤯 At 1am we were woken to a deer barking which usually I dictates a tiger nearby. 3 of us got up and we could see Gopals flashlight searching, but no tiger. Back to bed we went and the next time was 5am to more deer. An amazing experience. More pics and videos in an extra footprint.Læs mere