8 February, Sunday. Chitwan
Sunday 8 February 2009. Chitwan
07:00 wake-up call
07:30 breakfast
08:00 Elephant Jungle Ride
With the sunrays coming through the trees, with just the two of us on an elephant, we started the jungletour. (picture)
Birds singing, mixed with the noise of the (lady) elephant making her way through the forrest.
We spotted some deer until at one point Rita Chamelli (Rita2’s Nepali name) spotted a rhino in one of the bushes. Our driver ‘signaled’ the other drivers that we found a rhino.
She came out of the bush and we were lucky that, instead of running off, she walked away a little bit to go and pose for us. (picture)
Finding and making our way again, we saw a spotted deer.
Also this time lucky, he got up, ‘posed’ for a picture, before disappearing in the trees again.
Back around 13:00, a cuddle and a thank you to our elephant (Chamelli said she giggled when she was striking her nose). (picture)
13:00 lunchtime.
Sunbathing in the garden until 15:00: canoe ride, birdwatching, crocodile watching on the way to the Elephant Breeding Centre.
I recognized Grapjas straight away: one of the ‘little’ elephants jumping, dancing around.
And again we were lucky: as last year Grapjas and another baby were just 2-3 months old, this time there was a baby TWIN elephant!
This is very rare among elephants, so far it happened only 3 times in the world that an elephant twin was born, but the other twins died after a few days.
This twin was superhealthy and strong!
Several pictures of mama elephant breastfeeding her twin. (picture)
In the background we saw an enormous elephant chained to a tree. Suk told us that this elephant wanted to mate (the male elephant loses some black fluid from a gland behind his ear at this period) and he became completely mad, wild, dangerous in this period. Reason why they had to chain him, keeping him away from the other elephants. (picture)
19:00 A performance of a Tharu tribe, stick-dance, fire-dance, war-dance and the celebration-dance, where they invited us to join them. (picture)
20:00 dinner and again a conversation and a night-cap with Suk.
07:00 wake-up call
07:30 breakfast
08:00 Elephant Jungle Ride
With the sunrays coming through the trees, with just the two of us on an elephant, we started the jungletour. (picture)
Birds singing, mixed with the noise of the (lady) elephant making her way through the forrest.
We spotted some deer until at one point Rita Chamelli (Rita2’s Nepali name) spotted a rhino in one of the bushes. Our driver ‘signaled’ the other drivers that we found a rhino.
She came out of the bush and we were lucky that, instead of running off, she walked away a little bit to go and pose for us. (picture)
Finding and making our way again, we saw a spotted deer.
Also this time lucky, he got up, ‘posed’ for a picture, before disappearing in the trees again.
Back around 13:00, a cuddle and a thank you to our elephant (Chamelli said she giggled when she was striking her nose). (picture)
13:00 lunchtime.
Sunbathing in the garden until 15:00: canoe ride, birdwatching, crocodile watching on the way to the Elephant Breeding Centre.
I recognized Grapjas straight away: one of the ‘little’ elephants jumping, dancing around.
And again we were lucky: as last year Grapjas and another baby were just 2-3 months old, this time there was a baby TWIN elephant!
This is very rare among elephants, so far it happened only 3 times in the world that an elephant twin was born, but the other twins died after a few days.
This twin was superhealthy and strong!
Several pictures of mama elephant breastfeeding her twin. (picture)
In the background we saw an enormous elephant chained to a tree. Suk told us that this elephant wanted to mate (the male elephant loses some black fluid from a gland behind his ear at this period) and he became completely mad, wild, dangerous in this period. Reason why they had to chain him, keeping him away from the other elephants. (picture)
19:00 A performance of a Tharu tribe, stick-dance, fire-dance, war-dance and the celebration-dance, where they invited us to join them. (picture)
20:00 dinner and again a conversation and a night-cap with Suk.
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