The two days in Corbett National Park were a great transition back into the heat and craziness of the Indian plains. The park consists of well preserved jungle (huge trees, sporatic underbrush, mild climate). We were able to see a monitor lizard, monkeys, tons of deer, and walked amongst a herd of 20 Asiatic elephants on our elephant ride/safari. That said, Indian tourists were more than happy to tell us that they spotted "4 tigers" on their morning safari and that "elephants are not good for spotting tigers in the morning." Very annoying coming from sudden tiger experts from Delhi riding in private A/C cars and wearing Corbett Park t-shirts. One funny story though...We purchased a couple bags of cookies while we were waiting to leave the park. We set our bags down on a bench and then went inside our cabin room to grab a hat and book. In the span of 15 seconds, a monkey materialized from the trees, raced across an open area (20 feet or so), grabbed BOTH bags of cookies, raced back to the tree, and climbed 20 feet up before we could even turn around. All we heard was a rustle of plastic and a shriek as other monkeys chased him into the trees. We spent the next hour watching our lunch being fought over above our heads.
I think those are my only interesting stories as of late. That and we made a special trip to the Corbett Tiger Reserve and paid all this money and everyone basically sees a tiger and all we got was deer and boars... oh and of course elephants which was pretty spectacular. We took this elephant safari and got all close to them - amazing.
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