A very good night sleep on a larger than a king size bed (could almost fit 10 people) and we woke up in the dark. One more time, it was local 'anda' egg (relatively smaller in size) and tea and we were ready to head off. Unfortunately, our vehicle wasn't. We had to push it back and forth for a while, even my five year brother was a helping hand. Our driver said it was his fault to turn off the vehicle with the lights on. Ah! well, we were on the highway in no time and off again about 12km on the gravel road to Thakurdwara. We were ahead of time and we waited for GulabKali to appear. Elephant ride lasted about an hour. Not a quite ride like I had in Meghauli jungle, Chitwan for we had five year old brother on board but I expected to encounter more animals. Not luck our, the only different thing this time was reptiles including endangered long snouted gharial, marsh mugger crocodile and python. There were 7-8 pythons snuggled in the pit, apparently they were cold and would spread once the sun comes out as per our guide.
If I were to make it next time, I would do certainly do a jungle walk or a jeep safari and elephant ride in the evening as they say there is more possibility you will see a tiger hunt.
