Rhinos and Monkeys and Crocs. Oh My!

Freaked out for a second. 

“Let’s leave, let’s leave,” begged my mother to the mahout.

A few minutes beforehand, one of the rhinos we were following on our elephant ride through Chitwan’s jungle had charged at us. Thankfully, the elephant’s massive size and the mahout raising his stick in the air stopped the rhino in its tracks. But because we had spotted the rhinos again and were heading in their direction, my mother was about ready to jump off the elephant and run out the jungle if the rest of us were going to stay.

Read the rest of the post, which I wrote for Parakhi.com, here.