We spent the last afternoon in the jungle doing an elephant safari through the national park. This is when you ride on the elephant and apparantely this allows you to get really close to the wild life as they are not disturbed by jeep engines. I was a bit sceptical about this but decided to give it a go.
When we got to the elephant "boarding point" it was a bit like queing up for a ride at Blackpool pleasure beach. There was 4 people per elephant (plus driver) and there were about 15 elephants. On top of the elephant it was quite cramped and rather rocky. We got quite rather concerned when the driver turned round and said "balance" and looked quite concerned. We did manage to juggle ourselves around though to his satisfaction.
The ride began to grow on us and certainly was an interesting way to see the jungle and open grass lands. Being so high up on the elephant gave a different perspective. We were really lucky to see 2 rhinos and they were not worried initially by the elephants. Unfortuantely the drivers circled the rhinos and gave them no means to escape and they became very agitated and charged at one of the elephants. This had most of the tourists in hysterics (it was quite scary as we had been told that every year people die in the Park from charging rhinos). However it was all fine and the procession proceeded on its way. We also stopped to admire a beautiful red stag. It got scared when one of the Japanese tourists mobile phone went off and she answered it.
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| The rhinos before they charged |
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| On the back of an elephant |
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