Friday, February 03, 2006
Videos from India - Part II - Forest scenes
These are some videos from my 2-day hike in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala, India.
1. Wild Elephants! Live in the jungle. These are two females with a baby elephant that we ran into. We had to be extremely quiet so as not to startle them, since angry elephants are known to be quite dangerous in charging.
2. More on those elephants. That was just an enthralling sight.
3. Hiking through a random portion of the jungle. The exclamation you hear from me is due to a thorny bush which took a swipe at me.
4. Campfire at night. It is pitch black. The guards sang songs in the local language (Malayalam) and played cards. A few metres away we had placed an oil lamp. The guards kept watch in turns through the night, shining their flashlights all around every few minutes, looking out for elephants, bears and of course, tigers. We were not clearly told exactly what would be done if any of these animals were actually sighted.
5. I woke up in my tent in the middle of the night to realize that it had started pouring! I could not see anything, but the sound of the rain is wonderful to hear.
6. Just another section of the hike through the forest. This is on the banks of the Lake Periyar
7. We spent some time rowing around on a flimsy bamboo raft on the Lake Periyar early in the morning. I was rowing with one hand and filming with the other. The raft was pretty basic, a bamboo platform with uplifted bamboo pieces for seats. Our feet were pretty much in the water from the weight of 5 people on one raft.
8. Hiking through the jungles. Besides the guards, there were 2 swedish hikers with me.
1. Wild Elephants! Live in the jungle. These are two females with a baby elephant that we ran into. We had to be extremely quiet so as not to startle them, since angry elephants are known to be quite dangerous in charging.
2. More on those elephants. That was just an enthralling sight.
3. Hiking through a random portion of the jungle. The exclamation you hear from me is due to a thorny bush which took a swipe at me.
4. Campfire at night. It is pitch black. The guards sang songs in the local language (Malayalam) and played cards. A few metres away we had placed an oil lamp. The guards kept watch in turns through the night, shining their flashlights all around every few minutes, looking out for elephants, bears and of course, tigers. We were not clearly told exactly what would be done if any of these animals were actually sighted.
5. I woke up in my tent in the middle of the night to realize that it had started pouring! I could not see anything, but the sound of the rain is wonderful to hear.
6. Just another section of the hike through the forest. This is on the banks of the Lake Periyar
7. We spent some time rowing around on a flimsy bamboo raft on the Lake Periyar early in the morning. I was rowing with one hand and filming with the other. The raft was pretty basic, a bamboo platform with uplifted bamboo pieces for seats. Our feet were pretty much in the water from the weight of 5 people on one raft.
8. Hiking through the jungles. Besides the guards, there were 2 swedish hikers with me.
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