Ari's Planet

We walked. And walked. For about 50km. We saw many birds, including a common brilliant-irridescent green kingfisher, herrons, eagles, ducks, and more. We also saw crocs and many big-animal signs. When an animal weighs 2500 kg, like the one-horned rhino, it is hard to miss its poops, which are giant mounds of black balls of partially-digested plant matter. Many tracks of rhino, tiger, elephant, leopard, and even tracks of a mother tiger and her cub. The closest we got was to hear a rhino moving around in the bush. Our lack of success could just be luck or it could have been abetted by the large number of villagers running around and cutting the tall grass, which they get to do for 5 days a year. We got to stay in a typical Nepali guesthouse, which means they try to overcharge for previously agreed charges, eg, the flat Sprite I told him I wasn't paying for and 150 Rs for a room we had agreed was 100 Rs. After we got back I took a 2 hour elephant ride, on which me and my 3 fellow riders saw deer, monkey, 3 rhino, crocs, and pea fowl.