Saturday, March 21, 2009

tigers

So, wewent to Badhavgarh national park for tigers for 2 days and had jeep and elephant safaris. It was awesome and I saw my first wild tiger. They are breath taking. We then rode up to the tiger via elephant so we could get really close... about 3 feet away and it snarled at us ect... The next day we were driving in the jeep on a safari, where you have a driver and a naturalist to identify wildlife anyways, we drove up right on a tiger and tghe naturalist screamed tiger and we all went flying everywhere and there was a tiger literally 2 feet away and really pissed. Then we took a train into Agra to see the Taj. When I say train I mean and Indian sleeper train. Not very plesant I would compar it to jail. Then when we gotr to Agra we went to see the Taj at sunrise which was pretty awesome the Taj is like nothing anyone has ever seen or built before I have about 30000 photos of it. When then went to the rted fort which is insane bla bla bla. Then we went to a national bird park in Jaipur whichwas incredible and semi-boring because it was a bunch of birds. Jaipur is an awesome city though it is called the "pink city" which turned out to be more of a red/orange color. India is pretty behiond onn the whole internet thing one city we were in told us the connection was down in the whole town. ridiculous. We slept on the roof of a hotel which was a fantastic idea untill we all woke up with bed bug bites and mosquito bites. I have seen lots of hoprrible things like beggers with no limbs, deformities and the dirtiest childeren you could phathom. Right now we are in the Rathambore national park which has 40 tigers and today one l;eft the park and attacked 3 people in town and may be killed or taken to a zoo. Its pretty sad. We are in a desert with camels everywhere which is so fun. Today we met with a bunch of school childeren inthe area and ate lunch with them gave them books, supplies ect and taught them about tigers and why conservation is important. The lunch we got was pretty ethnic and by that I mean served by using hands and out of a bucket. It was odd but we all ate it. I bought soo many pairs of ridiculous pants I look like alladin. We saw a tiger drinking really close up today next to ancient ruins it was crazy my tiger count is at 5. I dont want to leave.

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