The next morning we woke up early and went on a dugout canoe ride down the
Rapti River. The river is the boundary between the
Tharu village and the national park. The river was beautiful in the morning with the mist slowly rising off of the river.
There was something almost mysterious about the view. We saw so many animals as we were floating down the river.
Some of which I was really happy to be seeing from the boat and not closer.
At one point the boat dropped Melissa, our tour guide and I off on the other side of the
Rapti River (in the National Park). We got to go for a nice little walk through the jungle. Before we started our jungle walk our tour guide gave us the guidelines of what to do if we ran into any animals in the jungle. It was kind of funny to hear. It did make me a little nervous about running into any of the animals. Fortunately we didn't need to use any of the procedures. The walk through the jungle was really cool. It was beautiful and still so wild.
There were monkeys, wild boars, birds, and deer. There are two different areas of the jungle. There is the forest area that has trees, and than the grass lands that are covered in elephant grass.
Elephant grass is really tall, I think that it actually could hide an elephant. After our walk through the jungle we went to watch the the elephant be washed in the river.
It was kind of interesting to see how the elephant riders had such control over the elephants they rode. Elephants are just such powerful animals. The last activity for the day was probably one of my most favorite. We got to go for a elephant back safari ride.
There were four people in the basket on top of the elephant. It was a little tight, but still an adventure. It was really only uncomfortable when the elephants were racing back at the end. We saw some pretty cool things on our safari, but by far the best was the baby rhino and mother rhino.
It was so cool to see the rhinos and to ride on the back of the elephant. Nothing like seeing the wild jungle from the back of a huge elephant.
There was something almost mysterious about the view. We saw so many animals as we were floating down the river. 
Some of which I was really happy to be seeing from the boat and not closer. 
At one point the boat dropped Melissa, our tour guide and I off on the other side of the Rapti River (in the National Park). We got to go for a nice little walk through the jungle. Before we started our jungle walk our tour guide gave us the guidelines of what to do if we ran into any animals in the jungle. It was kind of funny to hear. It did make me a little nervous about running into any of the animals. Fortunately we didn't need to use any of the procedures. The walk through the jungle was really cool. It was beautiful and still so wild. 
There were monkeys, wild boars, birds, and deer. There are two different areas of the jungle. There is the forest area that has trees, and than the grass lands that are covered in elephant grass. 
Elephant grass is really tall, I think that it actually could hide an elephant. After our walk through the jungle we went to watch the the elephant be washed in the river. 
It was kind of interesting to see how the elephant riders had such control over the elephants they rode. Elephants are just such powerful animals. The last activity for the day was probably one of my most favorite. We got to go for a elephant back safari ride. 
There were four people in the basket on top of the elephant. It was a little tight, but still an adventure. It was really only uncomfortable when the elephants were racing back at the end. We saw some pretty cool things on our safari, but by far the best was the baby rhino and mother rhino. 
It was so cool to see the rhinos and to ride on the back of the elephant. Nothing like seeing the wild jungle from the back of a huge elephant.
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I love that top picture it is awesome.
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