{"id":89,"date":"2009-01-01T22:24:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2009-01-01T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:24:58","slug":"leaving-on-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/leaving-on-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving on an elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in the Chitawan Reserve<\/a> in Nepal, a 900 sq km reserve with elephants, rhinos, tigers, and more. Antoine, Anais, and us have decided to embark on a 4.5 day trek through the reserve (with two local guides)– all for $82 including meals and lodging. It’s the ultimate wild life viewing trek, which may render us incapacitated after walking for 6-7 hours a day, not to mention the possibility of being lower on the food chain for the first time.<\/p>\n

Anais is worried because our Lonely Planet guidebook warns of the possibility of being trampled to death by rhinocerouses– but this happens once every few years, and mostly to a stupid tourist venturing inside the park without local guides. Antoine says he would like to see a tiger upfront because he relishes the idea of pooping his pants in fear. I, on the other hand, would prefer to be chased to death by a tiger, than being hit by a drunk driver while cycling at home. Death by tiger sounds much better in an eulogy than cycling accident.<\/p>\n

(Holy shit, I just saw an elephant go by the dirt road next to the internet cafe! There was a local sitting on top of a big pile of hay. That’s definitely not something I’ve ever seen while sitting in front of a computer).<\/p>\n

Crap, I forgot what I was going to write about. Anyways, we’re taking off for a few days. If we don’t write back in 5-6 days, we’ve probably outrunning some large mammal.<\/p>\n

Wish us luck!<\/p>\n

p.s. I promise to upload pictures when we return to Delhi, and hopefully insert some of them in past blog entries to describe things better. I know nobody wants to be reading my blog, just seeing cool pictures, but you’ll have to put up with my prose for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re in the Chitawan Reserve in Nepal, a 900 sq km reserve with elephants, rhinos, tigers, and more. Antoine, Anais, and us have decided to embark on a 4.5 day trek through the reserve (with two local guides)– all for $82 including meals and lodging. It’s the ultimate wild life viewing trek, which may render … Continue reading Leaving on an elephant<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}