Kabini
We stopped at a couple of places our driver recommended on the way to Kabini. Two of the most impressive were a holy place for Hindus where three rivers meet. Here people literally bathe in the water to be cleansed of their sins. The rivers were beautiful. We also stopped at an old Indian fort which is now a Muslim school. The courtyard appeared to be open to the public. We drew a little attention from the children who seemed curious, everyone else was busy with their work. There were a few other tourist there as well, but we were the only Americans.
We’ve finished our tour of the Kabini resort. I really hope one day we can go back for 3 or 4 days. This was truly an amazing resort. We had a cabin on the river Kabini. It was beautiful. We had large, and I mean large bats in the trees above us. There is a photo of them in the trees with a bird. The bird is about the size of our hawk, so it will hopefully give you a point of reverence.
While at the resort we went on two safaris. I am sad to say we did not see a tiger or any cats. However, we did have one in the vicinity of our vehicle. The whole forest was alive with activity around us. You could even hear the tiger as it moved in the bush, but it would not come out while we were sitting in the jeep. We did see two “tuskers”, male elephants. One around 30+ and a HUGE male much older. We were able to get very close to the first elephant and I was able get some photos. The other elephant was too far off for pictures. He was massive though, very impressive. We also saw two types of deer, wild boar, several varieties of birds, Indian “bison” they are call something else here, and probably some I’m forgetting as I am writing this a day later. There are photos of almost all the animals we saw.
We stopped at a couple of places our driver recommended on the way to Kabini. Two of the most impressive were a holy place for Hindus where three rivers meet. Here people literally bathe in the water to be cleansed of their sins. The rivers were beautiful. We also stopped at an old Indian fort which is now a Muslim school. The courtyard appeared to be open to the public. We drew a little attention from the children who seemed curious, everyone else was busy with their work. There were a few other tourist there as well, but we were the only Americans.
We’ve finished our tour of the Kabini resort. I really hope one day we can go back for 3 or 4 days. This was truly an amazing resort. We had a cabin on the river Kabini. It was beautiful. We had large, and I mean large bats in the trees above us. There is a photo of them in the trees with a bird. The bird is about the size of our hawk, so it will hopefully give you a point of reverence.
While at the resort we went on two safaris. I am sad to say we did not see a tiger or any cats. However, we did have one in the vicinity of our vehicle. The whole forest was alive with activity around us. You could even hear the tiger as it moved in the bush, but it would not come out while we were sitting in the jeep. We did see two “tuskers”, male elephants. One around 30+ and a HUGE male much older. We were able to get very close to the first elephant and I was able get some photos. The other elephant was too far off for pictures. He was massive though, very impressive. We also saw two types of deer, wild boar, several varieties of birds, Indian “bison” they are call something else here, and probably some I’m forgetting as I am writing this a day later. There are photos of almost all the animals we saw.
One place I did not mention in my original post was the sacred rivers. Three rivers come together in the town where we saw the muslim school. The hindus believe this to be a sacred place and baptize themselves in the waters. I was truly amazed at this since I know from my study of the Bible this was done in Palestine during the time of Christ. While my faith believes the only cleansing comes through the blood of Christ, we still practice baptism as a pronouncement of our faith, and in obedience to Christ who commanded we do it. This brings me to a point I just have to share. Being around several of the world's religion while in India, it struck how much in common each has with the other. I personally do not believe any religion is okay as long as you have one. If I believed that I would be denying my own faith. That being said, I don't know how anyone can look on the entire globe, see how much we all have in common, and not come to the following conclusions: We truly are all made in the image of God, We are all brothers and sisters and should seek to love one another rather than command or destroy each other, and finally the great diversity of the billions on the earth and the commonality of the group surely point to the existence of God and not something that happened by accident over billions of years.
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