me on the back of an elephant, heading off on safari!Also i got to go to the Elephant breeding centre here in Sauraha, where wild male elephants roam around the centre at night and mate with the females when they are in season! the result is many very cute baby elephants to play with.
playing with one of the baby elephants, playing tug of war with trunks.. no contest.. 
one evening i went with a couple of the other voulnteers to the Tharu village community stick dance, a kind of local dance put on for tourists.. and they make you get up and join in their dance.. which goes on for AGES... here's me, swetting away, throwing some serious shapes, to the thump of drums, and thwack of sticks.....
another visit was to the elephant TB camp, where they are treating Elephants that have TB. it is a 1 year long treatment, with human meds. This is a ball of medication being prepared, which they hate as it tasts really bitter (i had a bit)
and if the elephant keeps spitting out the medication ball, then they get it in liquid form as a rectal bolus.... the guy in the white shirt is all the way up to his shoulder inside the elephants bum.I'm now in my last few days here in Sauraha. wrapping up all the financial records and making sure i have all the data i need. then I'm heading north east up to Pokaraha, which is meant to be a beautiful town/city in the mountains, beside a lake. I plan to be there for 2-3 days as a bit of a break from the jungle, before heading back to Kathmandu and then home on the 16th!
small crocodile that we found by the river...
a couple of pics of the Orphaned baby rhino that they are looking after in the park HQ.. a cross between a dianasor and an armoured Pig.. you are totally unable to control them, they are so stocky, and just barge through everything!!
baby rhino sniffing my camera. they are super inquisitive.
