Day Twentythree
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November 24/2009 Log entry
"Chitwan canoe, hike and jeep safari"
Up early and straight into a dugout canoe. We were paddled down the river in the early morning fog while our guide showed us various strange birds including peacocks roosted high up in the trees and a huge stork, later a Gharial Crocodile. We set the canoe on shore way down the river and started our jungle hike. After only 2 to 3 minutes in the bush a crashing rhino was moving close by, we never saw it but a group of hikers near us did. While we walked we saw Languor monkeys and tons of birds. After lunch we took a long jeep safari which was very cool as Jocko and I rode on top of the roof. We saw kingfishers, storks, hornbills, peacocks, both Marsh mugger and Gharial crocodiles and both Languor and Macaque monkeys, spotted and barking deer, wild boars with babies, parakeets, minas and hundreds of other birds. We then came into a clearing from the jungle, an area of very tall elephant grass and there right beside the path was a very large rhino. It was bigger than I expected and it just stood there eating while I stood on the jeep's roof top taking pictures. At one point it seemed to get annoyed and turned around in a huff, then started to run and crash back through the grass like a bulldozer on legs. Wow, what a day!
