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Just a few hours ago, I felt I was in Baguio. Now I was all set to take a safari.

We arrived in Tamil Nadu. After resting, a jeep came for us to bring us to another aspect of India: its wildlife.

Our first stop was the temple of Ganesh the Elephant God. It was on top of a hill overlooking the villages below it. Perhaps this stop was built for us to say a prayer for us to be lucky to see some elephants living in the wild mountains where we were going.

When we were living in Kenya, you would try to see the big four:– lion, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros. I asked the guide if there were lions here, and he said they were in another state. For tigers, there were only 77 in the two adjoining states, so, there would be little chance for us to see one. I didn’t ask about the rhino, because the answer was obvious.

So the (big) four that we saw in this trip were the elephant, many deers and bucks, a few lemurs, several majestic peacocks. There were wild pigs, too. I had a video of the elephant, but cannot attach it to this blog. Just accept my word that I had one.

So this is India. It is such a big continent, it is not surprising to have a little bit of everything. I am just on my second day of my road trip to the Southern India region. You will have more blogs as I go.

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