Elephants Rock!
Friday, July 27th, 2007Chitwan National Park
April 5-7, 2007
I thought it would be difficult to top our jungle walk, but Gupal still had more surprises in store for us. That afternoon, he took us to the Baghmara Bufferzone on the outskirts of the park where we did an elephant safari.
Apparently, elephants aren’t afraid of anything (even mice) and nothing in the jungle is stupid enough to attack one so we felt perfectly safe from our high perch. This time, over the course of 2 hours, we got to see 10 different rhinos, including mothers with their babies.
They seemed unperturbed by our presence as they bathed or grazed serenely while we snapped dozens of photos. We also saw many monkeys, mongooses (mongeese?), peacocks and exotic birds before our elephants dropped us off by the river to watch the sunset. What an amazing day! [read on]