On the itinerary I had been given by my resort, my second day was to include some early morning bird watching followed by a free afternoon and then an afternoon elephant ride. I was super excited for the elephant ride but not so much the bird watching! How and ever I obviously went and tried to learn something. My guide took me put and around the jungle, village and river bank where he pointed out many different birds, medicinal plants (super cool) and took me passed the elephant breeding centre. I learned a bit about birds but was captured by the cuteness of one of the elephants and it's 1 month old baby.
My afternoon was spent, having lunch, playing some ukulele (which embarrassingly encouraged a crowd of Chinese tourists to want pics with me) in the courtyard, shopping, strolling down the streets eating icecream and laying in the hammock at my resort. One thing that really amazed me was the standard of the meals here at Chitwan Forest Resort. I had literally not tasted such good food in a long time, not even on the pacific cruise. Breakfasts always had eggs, lunches and dinners were always so creative eg stir fries, chow mein, fried rice, veggie parties, spicy potatoes, curried potatoes and they even surprised me with deep fried bananas covered in honey for dessert! It was delicious and I don't think they knew how good I thought it was no matter how many times I said amazing, amazing and gave them the thumbs up! I just wish they had a recipe book!
From 3pm until 6pm I headed off on yet another motorbike but this time the young boy was going about 100lm down a gravel road that said 20km everywhere! I thought I would blow off the bike before is even reached the elephants. The fear contined when I arrived and saw the mechanism for 'boarding' the elephant which was pretty funny...
But nevertheless I was excited! I was first on the elephant followed by 3 cool Nepalese tourists visiting from Kathmandu, each squishing into a corner. We laughed and moaned as we bumped our way around the jungle on Alisa our elephant! Our 'driver' was a funny old man who would hit me on the leg everytime there was a wild animal so I could take a picture of it on my phone which he was repeatedly fascinated by. He imitated the monkey noises and saved our faces from being tree bitch slapped each time.
Along the ride we saw monkeys, crocodiles, spotted deer, wild boar, funny looking spiders (he nodded when I asked of they were poisonous, but I don't think he knew what I meant) and the highlight was definitely the rare one horned rhino, or two...
It was an amazing evening and I was super excited to have finally done an elephant ride especially through the Nepalese jungle. What else would I be doin on a Friday ;) And I still had a day to go!
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