Wildlife Tour

I found out about this tour on Facebook. You see, India is a difficult place to travel. It's not as "backpacker friendly" as other places I've visited. Organizing and figuring things out takes a really long time. This new company, GoMowgli is just getting off the ground. The founder, Sunil, was inspired by the ease of his traveling across Australia and New Zealand and wants to start a whole network of buses taking people around India. This was their first overnight excursion!

We started at Ranganthittu Bird Sanctuary where we saw lots of cool, enormous birds and crocodiles. We took a little boat tour and got uncomfortably close to the crocs. Then we had a big lunch and went to Nagarhole National Park. Went on a safari and saw spotted dear, elephants, wild boars, peacocks, bison, and monkeys. Went to our campsite (or, "homestay" as they call it, but really, it was a campsite...) and had a huge dinner and went to bed. Up early for an awesome breakfast (as you can see, they fed us well) and then a hike to Irupu Falls which were beautiful but I was forced to go in! and it was freezing! Back to camp for a hike where we saw evidence of a tiger. ...tiger shit. Would have liked to see a tiger, but they are very shy and hard to spot, and it was still exciting that one had been there recently. Big lunch and then tour of the coffee plantation. Fed an elephant an orange at an elephant sanctuary, and saw about 30 elephants! Dosas and chai on the way back, and I'm back in my room in Mysore :)

Today was a moon day and it was good to have a day off from practice, but was busy, hardly got to rest. Tomorrow is just led primary, and then another day off. I'm getting a massage tomorrow, and by Monday I think my body will feel great and I'll be ready to have a strong week!

Pictures are not in the order of my descriptions, but you'll figure it out.