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Day 33 (February 9, 2000)
This little guy was just hanging around on a tree near the parking lot where we gathered for the morning jungle walk at Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala. He really does have blue-lavendar fur, and he really is just flattened out on the tree trunk calmly eating a nut while we tourists are excitedly clicking away. I never did get from our guide what his species is. The guides here are tribal people from this area, and are here simply to keep us from getting in trouble with elephants, cobras, wild dogs, etc. They don't speak English very well. We ended up seeing quite a few animals, but again, the elephants eluded us. We heard them, saw lots of dung, and lots of crunched areas they'd ripped up, but they can move silently when they want to and they decided that they didn't want to be seen this morning. We did see wild boar, sambar deer, a read-headed iguana, lots of monkeys, and other animals. Came back to the guesthouse to shower off and picked five leeches from my ankles. Blick. If you go, bring thick socks! BACK TO HOME |
