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It´s Wilson´s time, 6:15 h when we're all having breakfast, chai, dosa, chocolate cake ... Yasmine Wilson's wife luxury kitchen.
A 7am start the marathon, this time will be our driver Sunil, a Tata Indigo car.
Kochi Port to exit, take the ferry to Vyppeen Island, the entire cross to take another ferry, and we are leaving behind islands crossing bridges. The 300km journey will cost us about 9 am stopping eating and enjoying the tropical forest landscape.
Already in Mudumalai National Park began to see the first deer and various animals, it is dry season but it looks pretty green for everything. We arrived at Hotel Nest Inn, a luxury hotel, with gardens, birds and a very very comfortable bed.
We rested a bit and 19.30 we were stuck in the Jeep with Kumar, our guide and driver to make our first Night Safari. We are on a road that is beside the river where animals come to drink, it's not long when we spotted the first animals, deer, elk, bison and a family of elephants with a baby a week, all wild and looking around us there in their habitat. For over 2 hours we saw all kinds of animals, a highly recommended experience, we liked a lot.
Back in the hotel, dinner and prepare our minds for the next day, when Wilson 6:15 am on foot, trekking chai 3h fast through the jungle to see what we see ***
11/02/10
The time Wilson is very hard, but we getting used to it, at 6:30 pm we're taking a road chai way to the jungle, which is not more than 2km from the village.
We started trekking on the same road where we leave the Jeep, we went into the thick jungle where there are several types of vegetation, a dry, which is deciduous, and another bright green that resembles a real jungle. A few steps from the beginning we see footprints of tigers and their needs, Kumar us today and an old man of a local tribe. The thrill of seeing an animal in the wild is intertwined with the fear of a possible attack by this, since we are completely helpless.
At about 50m we see deer and reindeer missed watching us, are very nice moments. We walked in silence to hear the sound guides the jungle to know where to go. We are in an area of hundreds of square miles where there are 60 tigers, 600 elephants, bears, bison, buffalo, hyena, lynx, monkeys of various kinds, etc ...
We reached an area where there is a certain height and stayed there several minutes observandoy listening, when suddenly he heard as if someone was breaking branches of a tree. The guides tell us that there are elephants and excitement about invading them, going toward the noise to see them live. On the way we find the feast of a tiger and bones, was a buffalo. We are very close to the elephants, guides cower like a movie, we do the same with a lot of silence, we get to see two elephants and their young for several minutes, eating and breaking branches as if they were paper. We are completely in silence, broken only by the crackling of dry leaves and the focus of the camera. After about 10 minutes, the guide tells us to get a little closer to Santy and I, we do, why not? (We've been there many times with captive elephants and are very good), do a photo, but the elephant is aware of our presence, puts his ears forward, and the guide send us run away RUN RUN RUN!! The elephant makes a very loud sound, you start to listen as broken branches in a hurry, is a full-scale attack. We just see the elephant, as in the sprint to stick around 100m sure there was a world speed record, but few seconds later the shrill sound of the elephant, the little old guide had stopped. The shock gave way to laughter, explanations of the guides was that he did so to protect their young. We left the jungle with the feeling of having experienced a great moment, very exciting, we went to see a couple of temples and rest until evening.
We are back in the Jeep safari, just simply being there is worth the time. We see all kinds of animals common and to us, monkeys, elephants, deer, elk, bison, buffalo, until they appear a couple of bears, one pass. Following the path Vanessa manages to see the back of a leopard, we were waiting, but there was no way of seeing him again, a shame.
Once back so much emotion, just hoped it was time the Night Safari. We return to the Jeep at 20h in a different route, we see a giant bear, a smaller and other animals. On this route we saw less, but the day was so complete that we do not care the least.
Zenith and alarm when Wilson ***
12/02/10
I started the day with Indian, does something cool and the sun still is not seen, at 6:30 pm and we are in the Jeep with the launch safari, we saw many animals, but the tiger would not be seen. We go to a coffee plantation where there are very large squirrels, a species of weasels, ferrets and birds all over, there are about 350 different species, the sounds are very different and we enjoyed it very much. Here are just our chances of seeing a tiger in the wild by this time, we have an outstanding debt, Kumar has behaved perfectly with all his explanations and kindness, we will one day truly engages the jungle ...
It is 10:30 h and spent the rest of the morning calm in the garden of the hotel waiting for lunch, at 13h Kumar comes to pick us to let us in the bus station to take us to our next destination Mysore 90km from here .
Are 13.30 and our bus to Mysore is a real luxury, sleeper seats, air conditioning, almost new, not like a bus in India.
