Dehydration and Elephants

Oh god I think I’m actually dying. 

I’m sure I’ve sweated about half of my own body weight and I’m pretty convinced that I have the shits despite not passing anything out yet because I’m just sweating it all out.
My thoughts right now are that it’s just a big cycle of being so dehydrated that there is no water left inside me to have diarrhoea.

I’m feeling ill after drinking 4 litres of water and it’s only 12. Earlier on was worse though, at least I’m currently lying underneath a nice fan in underwear and a t-shirt. When I get back to Kathmandu I’m getting linen clothes and lots of them! Otherwise, I will not be able to survive in this heat for the full 7 ½ weeks.

Woke up at 6AM to an amazing breakfast. The chefs at Chitwan serve really good food here :)
They also take good care of us for 3 days for $150 (activities included!)

We then headed down to the riverside in search of crocodiles which apparently are more aggressive than Australian ones and attack people on a regular basis. Our guide had nicknamed one of them “Mass Murderer”. Comforting.

Eugh, I constantly feel things creeping on my back that aren’t actually there.
Whilst in the canoe for the crocodile safari I thought “This is it, I’m getting heat stroke” as I began to feel ill, dizzy and very sleepy. I fell asleep a few times and the sun was just beating down on me. I forgot my hat. I am a tube.
It wasn’t until we got in the shade and I had another litre of water that I felt well enough to walk again for the jungle trek.
Really worried about what trekking is going to be like because strenuous exercise in this heat is going to kill me.

The jungle trek was worth it in the end as we emerged from the jungle into the elephant breeding camp.
This place is amazing, they breed elephants and use them to detect wild elephants and rhinos to monitor their health and help people out of floods.
Apparently, there used to be 300 types of elephant in the world but now there are only 2. (I wonder if the woolly mammoth was included in that count...) But, these ones are used to help save their own species by tracking and monitoring their health.
They are so beautiful. They were really tame so we got to feed them. They are also just like petting a horse. A big, bulky, grey, long nosed horse... I was just amazed at how they use their trunks as hands and would occasionally pat you on the back like a person would do. Later on, we came to find out that they also use their trunks as snorkels when under water. I wanted to steal the twin baby elephants and take them home but I can’t imagine that they’d like Aberdeen or Carrickfergus very much. So I’ll leave them to enjoy the sun with their mummy. It’s established, elephants are cool...

Fun Fact for the day: Also read that when erect, an elephant’s penis is 1 metre long and 16cm thick. Ouch!
Anyway, off to go and sweat my weight again and listen to music... Laters!!

Jessxo