September 27th 2010
We left early this morning for Bandipur. Bobbi has a home and many acres of jungle at this site. It used to all be farm land, but he allowed nature to take it over and now the site is a very important elephant corridor.
On our way to Bandipur, we picked up Ameli. We also passed some amazing sites on the way, some huge inactive volcanoes and a dam that I couldn't tell that it wasn't an ocean. I could not see anything but water in the distance. I have never seen anything like that before.
We stopped for some sweet bread along the way. It Reminded me of Christmas, because it was sort of like a dry version of angel food cake with little red and green sugar candy pieces inside. Very interesting.
When we made it to Bobbi's land in Bandipur, we sat atop the roof until well into the night, listening and trying to spot wild animals. Nothing.
Until we decided to go to bed and found that a giant cockroach had invaded mine and Ameli's room!
Usually they aren't a big deal, but this one was huge and flying at us!! It's too bad we didn't take a video because it was a fiasco. But somehow we managed to get it out the window and hit the sacks.
3am, Ameli wakes up, “Esther! Esther! Do you hear that??”
Sure enough there was an entire herd of elephants right outside of our window!! Trumpeting away! One of the few interruptions in the middle of the night, that was completely okay.
We left early this morning for Bandipur. Bobbi has a home and many acres of jungle at this site. It used to all be farm land, but he allowed nature to take it over and now the site is a very important elephant corridor.
On our way to Bandipur, we picked up Ameli. We also passed some amazing sites on the way, some huge inactive volcanoes and a dam that I couldn't tell that it wasn't an ocean. I could not see anything but water in the distance. I have never seen anything like that before.
We stopped for some sweet bread along the way. It Reminded me of Christmas, because it was sort of like a dry version of angel food cake with little red and green sugar candy pieces inside. Very interesting.
When we made it to Bobbi's land in Bandipur, we sat atop the roof until well into the night, listening and trying to spot wild animals. Nothing.
Until we decided to go to bed and found that a giant cockroach had invaded mine and Ameli's room!
Usually they aren't a big deal, but this one was huge and flying at us!! It's too bad we didn't take a video because it was a fiasco. But somehow we managed to get it out the window and hit the sacks.
3am, Ameli wakes up, “Esther! Esther! Do you hear that??”
Sure enough there was an entire herd of elephants right outside of our window!! Trumpeting away! One of the few interruptions in the middle of the night, that was completely okay.
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