Day Twentyfour
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November 25/2009 Log entry
"Ride Elephants"
We opted for no activities for the morning and had a bit of a lie in. Jocko stayed back on the deck working on updating his journal while Alan, Brock and I went for a long walk through the village and beyond, just followed the roads and checked out the local ways. Nice walk. We stopped for a drink at a place with an upper deck and then had a look through some of the shops. Back at the hotel we had lunch and played cards until it was time to leave for our elephant safari. I had a great vegetable, mushroom patty with chips and a salad that was very good. We drove to the corridor section of the park where the elephants where staged. It was a bit too busy and had a bit of an "African Lion Safari" feel to it but it was cool and fun all the same. All 4 of us climbed onto the top of a very large elephant and set off on a very jerky ride, bouncing side to side and front to back. The elephants seem to follow the same path but the drivers know where the wildlife is or has been sighted last and so with a whistle they talk back and forth to each other sharing info and soon we take off in another direction. We come across deer then a bunch of peacocks, two of which take off and fly across a river. We cross the river, pretty cool as the elephants step down off the bank and into the flowing water. Soon we see a rhino on the other side near the edge of a tree line. Making a b-line over we get close and snap off some great pictures. In all we saw 3 rhinos, the last of which was truly huge. Some people we talked to saw as many as 6. We were all thrilled even if it was too busy. We headed back and had a steak dinner...well steak for here, which is a ground patty of something but it was good anyway. We played a few games of cards while organizing the next morning's plans. All very tired we called it a night.
