Jungle safari at Chitwan

This morning started with a 6am wake up call (a knock on our door), shower and breakfast before setting off on our elephant ride. One and a half hours through the 'jungle', we were lucky to see deer, a family of wild boar, and the highlight a rhino and her baby, up close and personal! That was pretty special. We then went to watch the elephant bathing, we all decided it was more fun watching others getting showered by the elephants, they are such beautiful animals, we could have watched them all day.

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream, if you see a crocodile don't forget to scream! Well we did see crocodiles, monkeys, birds and water buffalo, but we didn't scream!! It was a very peaceful hour ride in dug out canoes to our next stop. A walk through the grassland to the elephant breeding centre. As we started our walk our guide spotted a rhino grazing, we were told to be very quiet and if it charges - hit the ground! For once we were all quiet! The breeding centre was interesting with several baby elephants entertaining us!

A short walk later to the river bank, and then the dilemma.....2 small canoes and about 60 people waiting to cross. After much discussion it was decided it was shallow enough for us to walk across. So, 11 ladies, 2 guides and Santosh all took off shoes, sox and trousers to begin the walk across!
We'll we did. create some excitement for the locals, there were people taking photos from the bank and the local children killing themselves laughing as we made the other side. I don't think they had seen westerners in underpants before! Renee had given us instructions not to show our knees, we'll we didn't, they were under the water!

Dinner at a local restaurant and home to bed before our journey back to the big smoke - Kathmandu.