Lemme see those elefantttz!

In a perfect world we would have taken 2 weeks for this trip, but we dint have that, we had 3 days. The bus stopped twice once at midnight, once at 6 am. Random times. And you force yourself to get off an walk around. We ate the sandwiches which were surprisingly very tasty. And in the morning around 10am or so we arrived in Siliguri, the gate way to the Himilayas from the west. The eastern is in Pakistan, I think we chose well… So we go to this restaurant and have a chicken sandwich, very good, but not like u would imagine. Ill upload a picture. This was also the first time we had a bathroom with a door in the last 18 hrs or so… thank goodness.

So we met a few people and got into a jeep looking vehicle and headed out to Dooars. We made it!!! and some how we slept. This was a very bumpy ride. We got to the lodge where we would be staying for the next few days which was amazing. I would totally come back. We had a great lunch and retired to our rooms to get cleaned up. Palm trees everywhere, inside the Garumara national park. Everything I so green. I feel like I’m in the Amazon, not India. This is not what India looks like. India is deserts and dirt. Not this. Yah ok. India is huge. It is very very different all over.

Early evening we head deeper into the park and prepare for the safari ride. Oh, yah were going on a safari ride, in an area with leopards, rhinos (my fav animal), elephants and a whole bunch of other animals. So its not exactly like they show in the movies, but we were in a cart pulled by buffalo. Pretty cool just the same. So we go up the Madla Watch Tower. We saw a whole bunch of birds, then some elephants off in the distance!!! So cool. I got some great pictures. I dint see as many animals as I would have liked, but it was awesome. Then as the sun was going down, elephants crossed the river! WHATTT this was cool. I got great shots.

Then they took us to this tribal dance which was cool and of course I videoed it. You tube when I get back. Very very cool day. We went back to the lodge, had dinner at 10pm and tried red rum for the first time. It tasted ok. We chatted about movies till almost 12 and then went to bed.