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Paula... Who knew that 12 days after I took this picture, this tiny Brit would save my life?
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This fawn was a pet at the resuarant where we stopped so Paula and I could transfer to a van to "Island Jungle Resort".
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Although the tool the mahout uses looks kind of brutal, I never saw it used in a cruel manner. At one point our mahout dropped it and the elephant retrieved it for him. The relationship between them was very sweet.
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For our return to the spot where we could catch the bus back to Kathmandu, this time we did not have a rickety van, but a rickety pickup truck.
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The generator is only on at the camp for three hours a night. During that time the local villagers come to perform.
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But we got a pic out of thr deal. Make no mistake, this is not the most comfortable way to travel. Everybody in camp had plenty of bruises from the jostling.
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This should be the official bug of Chitwan, there are so many of them.They are about 3 inches long.
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Eventually, we had 11 in the back and 5 in the cab. Extra income for the driver is my guess.
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6 AM day two- Some Indian tourists who were leaving early, took one last chance to bathe with an elephant...
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After breakfast, 2 rangers took 5 of us out for a nature walk. Notice the bamboo stick one of them is holding. That is the most protection we ever had.
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Later, back on the bus we saw this. I think this is one of the same trucks we saw on our way to Chitwan
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Most working elephants are females. We saw this male on our walk. He had 3 Nepali Army soldiers on his back who were armed with kalatchnikovs (SP?). He was moving pretty fast and this was the only shot fired.
