Nepal
Androli̇̄

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    • Day 17

      Chitwan - Elephant Safari

      November 7, 2019 in Nepal ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      Another unique way to travel. Our mahout is gentle with our elephant as he guides him through the jungle. Even so, when Dumbo wants to stop and eat, it can take some encouragement to get him moving again. We see deer, a wild boar, and about 5 single horned rhinoceroses on this excursion. The rhinos are the biggest attraction. Photography is somewhat difficult because elephants don’t stay still too long.

      When an elephant blows his nose, it sounds like an air hose blowing off. Once Dumbo decided to get some leaves overhead. He grabbed the branch with his trunk and pulled down about a 6 foot section. I though he just wanted the leaves. Turns out he wanted the branch to pick his teeth as he walked along, then he ate the branch too.
      I would say elephants are friendlier than camels. That has been my experience. They also appear to smarter. We all were riding on three differently pachyderms, and when we got back to the elephant stairs, the elephants remembered the order in which we boarded. They let us get off in the same order, with no directions from the mahouts.
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    • Day 18

      Jungle jeep safari

      November 8, 2019 in Nepal ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Up early for a Jeep safari. It is foggy and we cross the river by a pole and oar powered boat. On the other side we climb into a Tata jeep. We are six, like we were on the elephant safari, being joined by an Irish couple. It is eerie driving through the fog shrouded grass. The grass is 20 feet high here so you can’t see far anyway. We pass the grassland and find ourselves in the forest. It doesn’t take long before we spot some deer. What we want to see is a royal Bengal tiger. We have already seen some tiger footprints at the start of the ride, so we are hopeful.

      Through the course of the morning we see monkeys, some wild boar, rhinos and birds. The fog has lifted as the morning warms up which helps for game spotting. Dianne is better than I am at game spotting, seeing deer that no one else has noticed. We are treated to a bush breakfast around 9 am and eat it in the company of a feeding rhinoceros.
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