Day 6 February 21, 2024 Chitwan
After breakfast everyone but Connie walked down to the river and boarded canoes for a ride down the river.
Connie rode in a jeep to the crocodile farm and waited there. The canoe folks were lucky enough to see a male rhino. They saw lots of birds as well. The water is not very deep and there are no rapids. Everyone took a quick walk around the crocodile sanctuary before boarding jeeps for a safari ride through the jungle.
This is a very large national park. It covers hundreds of acres of land. If you are caught killing an animal from there you will serve 5-10 years in jail. We saw numerous kinds of birds, lots of deer and one lizard. No tigers even though 125 of them live in the jungle. Since they are a nocturnal animal our odds were not good. We made one stop for coffee, tea and biscuits. Then more safari before heading back to the lodge for lunch. After a short rest the naturalist talked about many of the jungle animals. There are 369 rhinos in the park, three kinds of deer, alligators and numerous birds. Then some folks went for a bird watching walk. The response was lots of birds in flight.
That evening before dinner some of the locals performed various local dances. For the last dance they invited all of us to join them.
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