We woke up leisurely as one would on a vacation for the first time today and headed to the GIR wildlife sanctuary, the reception was a buzz with activities resembling a fish market, all this inspite of it being a weekday, we were assigned a car each for 4 in each and a guide and a driver accompanied us, our guide was an African Indian and told us the story of their origins in India via the Portuguese trade visits.
He also explained how govt policies got the once endangered around 120 lions to the current 600+ of them. The route we were on took us through several teak trees and several other types of them and an occasional ghost tree, it had a very soothing affect on us, most of our blood pressures were normalized, we finally spotted a pride feasting on a sambar deer kill and also saw a crocodile, a pair of mongoose and several owls our guide and driver were excellent spotters.
Soon we returned to the reception area and did some souvenir shopping and went back to the resort. As it was pretty hot, we even took a siesta after lunch, the evening was spent playing rummy and then packing for the ride tommoro which would start at 4.30am as we had a long way to go towards the statue of unity.