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Spent the weekend out at the Periyar Tiger Reserve, near the Kerala/ Tamil Nadu border. Katie and I went on a private tour with a guide, a shooter and six crew members who set up tents and made meals & etc. No tigers spotted (just as good since we were on foot) but we did spend time dodging through the underbrush in order to avoid some apparently dangerous wild forest elephants, one of whom (with young) spotted us and gave the warning trumpet before coming our way. I have never seen a rifleman look so panicked. Lots of wild boar and bison as well and breakfast under a tarp which had been partially destroyed the night before by rain and high winds.