Up at 5 had breakfast then left for the park at about 6.30.
A leopard had been spotted just outside the park, we were very lucky to see it. It was chilling out in a tree on the hillside quite far away. It looked huge. A shame the guide or no-one had binoculars. Managed to borrow some for half a minute from another jeep. The leopard was gorgeous. It was just lying with its legs hanging over the branch and occasionally shoeing away the birds that were pestering it.
It seems we weren't in the tiger zone this morning (the jeeps get allocated zones – they know where the tigers are but obviously wouldn’t let us know that we’re not in the right zone). But we saw lots of animals and most of them new to us….
Loads of different birds – green pigeons, lots of peacocks spreading their tail feathers!, jungle babbler, some sort of magpie, a bulbul. We saw gazelles, spotted deer (think these are the same as the one’s that are common in the UK) samba deer (huge ears!) and blue antelope which are huge!
Had a quick swim in the pool (they have a pool!) (Will still bit under the weather). The hotel predictably messed up our booking so we ended up on a “canter” which is a big, sawn-off lorry that carries about 40 people. Went to a different part of the park. Saw the fort which is impressively high up a cliff. Didn’t see many animals bu saw a crocodile, mongoose and a peacock shaking its tail feathers!
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