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Travel Blogs from Chitwan, Nepal
A tiger under the floorboards
This is a top pick! ... to the mountains, and because I fancied being pampered for a few days, I escaped from the dust and noise of Kathmandu to Chitwan, a national park in the flat terai to the south of the country. My accomodation was wonderful; my very own thatched hut ...
My butt hurts...
This is a top pick! ... for a while. Sauraha is the dustbowl town built for tourists on the banks of the Rapti river, which skirts the north of Chitwan, a sub-tropical jungle full of leopards, tigers, rhinos, peacocks, elephants, deer, boar and on and on and on. It was here ...
Rhino and Tiger spotting - Chitwan National Park
This is a top pick! ... are still interested!...... Well after another slow, bone crunching journey along another of Nepal's 'Fabulous highway's', we arrived off the bus into Chitwan from Katmandu, to a mass frenzy of shouting touts and over enthusiastic taxi drivers. ...
Will we or won't we?
This is a top pick! ... the day. So the question of 'To safari or not to safri' was yes. Why else would you come to Chitwan. Tomorrow we were off back into India. Nepal is a great place. The trek was fantastic. Taxing but a fantastic experience. I've never been so close ...
Chitwan National Park
This is a top pick! ... out and true Nepali countryside living flew by in a blur. We were the only two people to travel all the way to Chitwan. From the last stop we took a rough jeep ride and shortly thereafter finally arrived at the tranquil Wildlife Adventure Resort. ...
Rhino-saurus
This is a top pick! ... : Finally left Kathmandu, feeling footloose and fancy free with small light backpacks and headed to Tadi Baazar, the gateway to Chitwan National Park, where we arrived frazzled after a long bus ride on which Rach suffered badly from travel sickness. It ...
How to wash your elephant
This is a top pick! 23.9.06 Chitwan Nationl Park Nepal What's good about a morning at 6am I'm not sure, but I was about to find out. Well, breakfast was good to start with. Next, on with the rain poncho and into the dugout canoe for a trip down the Rapati River in the ...
Walking Across Chitwan National Park
This is a top pick! ... with Ram, who carried a big stick, which wouldn't do much against the rare One-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) of Chitwan National Park. "I was conducting a bird survey in 20,000 lakes when villagers were throwing stones at a rhino. The rhino ...
Bungle in the Jungle
This is a top pick! ... my puppy dog guide, I take a public bus for a six hour ride on barely traverseable roads west to see some wildlife in Chitwan National Park. Immediately upon getting down from the mountains the weather changes from bone dry to moist, humid air, and the ...
Rhinosourus
This is a top pick! ... Although an amazing place, feet easily become itchy and having already consulted the Nepalese LP, Gaz and i decided to head over to Chitwan national park for a few days. Further roof surfing during the 6 hour journey saw Gaz and i getting picked up by ...
A Fantastic 5 days!
This is a top pick! ... 'armour' body which is fascinating. They dont look real- bit like a toy, but definitely beautiful animals. Next morning - left Chitwan on a "real" tourist bus with partial suspension... sigh... so glad... hahaha.. 5 hours back to Kathmandu. Now in ...
Rest day at Chitwan
This is a top pick! 24.9.06 Rest day at Rainbow Safari Resort During the drive from Pokhara to Chitwan National Park, we encountered all sorts of road and traffic conditions, much of which was very dangerous. There were not so many cars on the roads, mainly busses, ...
Bathing With Elephants
This is a top pick! ... us again and again back into the fast flowing river. She might not have been pretty in a conventional sense, but she made it clear, this was her home, and we were in her bathtub. Bathing with Elephants - now playing at Chitwan National Park, ...
Getting Horny with Rhinos...What?
This is a top pick! ... fellow traveler) and I decided to ride on into the jungle to see if we could spot some rhinos. All around the villages of Chitwan, you see raised platforms about 10-12 feet high that look like diving platforms with out the diving board or pool. These ...
Chitwan
This is a top pick! ... are an activity that most people associate with Africa, but the Indian subcontinent has a lot to offer in that regard as well. The Chitwan national park is one of the better ones in South Asia and our trip there did not dissapoint. We spent 3 days here, ...
Elephants! Rhinos! Polo!
This is a top pick! I have just had an amazing time in Sauraha, which is the main entry point to Royal Chitwan National Park. Getting out of Kathmandu has been so good for my spirit and this location was perfect. I stayed at riverside Hotel www.metateam.nl/riverside which ...
Stifeling Sauraha
This is a top pick! ... a pair of rhino...followed them for about 10 minutes, through some pretty dense/scratchy jungle (if you go on an elephant in chitwan, wear shoes and long pants, luckily we got the tip from Rikard)... The pair stopped by a boggy watering hole and we got ...
Wild Animals
This is a top pick! ... and baby, but they were in the grasslands so I was unable to get a photo, but at least I saw them. So, tomorrow, we leave Nepal, and head back into the shitfight that is India. We have had loads of fun, and met some good people along the way. We both ...
"I Would Walk 5 Hundred Miles..."
... everything despite the fact I never even ask! It was a joy spending the week with their family. Currently back in Chitwan volunteering in a small jungle village with arguably the worlds cutest kids. New experiences and sights every 5 minutes. More on ...
Royal Chitwan National Park
1st - 4th April: Hit the road early again, off to Royal Chitwan National Park, about 100km SE of Kathmandu, in search of the elusive Tiger. We didn't expect to see any to be fair but friends of ours Bobby & Andrew had seen one here recently so why ...
Chitwan National Park
After my stay in Bandipur Purna, our guide, picked us up and tooked us to Chitwan. It's located in the southern flat lands of Nepal called the Tharai region. It's completly flat, hot and humid, completly different from th ehigh mountains of the north, and ...
Chitwan
... whizzing round the corner. Apparently they do charge at jeeps so our driver emergency braked. We also stopped at a croc farm that was breeding them. They didn't do much though, they were all asleep! Chitwan was great but I wished wed seen a tiger or bear. ...
Awkwaaaaaaard day
... added to the fun. I also managed to kill at least 20 insects with my face. Cranium + 50mph + insect = explosion. Arriving in Chitwan, we sat down to eat a late momo lunch (after the inevitable argument about which identical hole in the wall restaurant ...
Animal watching
... though I’m not sure if I would have managed four days as the days were extremely hot, much hotter than elsewhere in Nepal I’ve been. From Chitwan, we head back to Kathmandu for a day after which I’ll go to Pokhara for a week and Kai ...
An elephant, just does what it do
... ;We went about a 5 hours bus ride south of Kathmandu into the Terrai which is hot and jungle like. We went to Chitwan National park where we hiked through the jungle and saw wild peacocks, boars, rhinos, and crocodiles. We also went on ...
Bathing with elephants
We went out on a dugout canoe this morning, before the fog had lifted, so everything was a bit hazy. We saw a couple of crocodiles, some kingfishers and also spied a huge rhino on the river bank... but the photos weren't any good because of the ...
Chitwan National Park
... the luscious jungles of Nepal it was refreshing to breathe in some fresh air and experience some peace and quiet! The journey to Chitwan seemed to be taking us into the middle of nowhere and villages became even more rustic and rural than those we saw in ...
Jungle fun!
... the 3rd world the roads were not of the highest quality. after a shaky 5 hours though we arrived saftely in sauraha chitwan ready for some safari action. the first morning we went on a canoe trip down the river hoping to find some gharial ...
Chitwan
I have been planning a trip to Chitwan National Park since before I left the UK! I was pretty apprehensive that it wasn't going to live up to my expectations, especially since my expectations could only really be satisfied by seeing a tiger in the ...
Elephants and Rhinos and Camels...oh my!
... great scenery...and not very great rapids...and one night camping along the river. The trip also dropped us 1 hr away from Chitwan National Park and we've both had our fill of the Nepali bus experience. This is a great way to avoid another ...