Sauraha, Nepal Travel Blogs

Rhinos and Tigers and Sloth Bears, Oh My!
Nov 30, 2009

... into the park, to appreciate nature and the wildlife within it. Enjoying elephant baths in the Rapti river, the river that borders Sauraha and Chitwan National Park! This cuddly and smart gal was so much fun! Just grab her ears, put your feet or legs ...

Not tiger spotting in Chitwan
Oct 30, 2008

... middle of the night. After a great night's sleep and breakfast we wandered off into the town to see what there was to see.  Sauraha exists for one reason, it is for people that want to go and see the animals in the park, but don't want to pay the ...

Vacances, vacances!
Nov 21, 2005 (27 photos)

... de reperes. Mais voila, l'idee de venir dans le Terai c'est revelee des plus positives. Arrives dans l'apres-midi a Sauraha, petit village situe en bordure du Chitwan Park, nous trouvons d'abord un petit bungolow entoure d'un agreable jardinet pour ...

Sweltering in Chitwan
Sep 27, 2008 (8 photos)

... dung as buckshit pretty much sums up the experience. We decided to stay just outside the park in an area called Sauraha as the accommodation looked much nicer and we were assured the activities would be the same from all locations. Unfortunately I don ...

Back to nature
Nov 24, 2006 (6 photos)

After a couple of days driving including a very lapsadasical border crossing we arrived at Royal Chitwan National Park. We stayed at the Rhino Lodge, but it seemed as we drove through town that all the accommodation was named using any two or three ...

Royal Chitwan National Park
Nov 18, 2007 (1 photos)

... are still ridden down the village streets. Besides the ventures into the park, the most exciting event of the day here in Sauraha, the village across the park river, is grabbing a lounge chair by the river and watch the sun settle over the jungle ...

Rhinos, elephants and more
Apr 20, 2008 (31 photos)

... than the 25ft it grows to after monsoon but still enough to make it difficult to see everything. We spent 4 nights in Sauraha enjoying the mellow village atmosphere. We did some elephant bathing where you sit on their back and they spray you with a ...

Polo playing with a BIG difference
Nov 25, 2006 (41 photos)

... we'd tie in a trip to the jungle with the annual Elephant Polo Championships at Meghauli. Taking a tourist bus headed for Sauraha, the touristy destination of Chitwan National Park (more expensive than a public bus but guaranteed a seat, an important ...

10th Oct Sauraha - Chitwan National Park
Oct 10, 2007

... of two elephants walking down the street towards our car.  Elephant is the standard mode of transport in Chitwan.  Sauraha is a quiet little place that has prospered due to the treks in Chitwan and the Elephant breeding centre close by. We ...

Rainbow Safari Resort
Sep 22, 2006 (10 photos)

... . We were met after a beautiful 5 hour, 140 kilometer, drive in Tandi by Kamal an employee of Rainbow Safari Resort, Sauraha, Chitwan National Park. He guided us the remaining 7 kilometers to the resort in Lou's car. The accommodation was basic, but we ...

Paragliding and elephants
Dec 6, 2009 (5 photos)

... receive about 200 Rs (2 euro) per kilo of cocoons that they deliver to the silk factory. I moved on to my final destination in Nepal, where I am now still, which is Chitwan National Park. On the jeep to the town where I am staying I met a group of people ...

Chitwan National Park
Nov 13, 2007 (79 photos)

... soir, nous les avons vu executer les danses traditionnelles a l'hotel. C'etait vraiment tres reussi De nouveau, il y a un festival au Nepal (le 2eme apres Dassain), il s'agit de Tihar. C'est une fete concernant les freres et soeur, ils s'echangent des ...

The Royal Chitwan National Park
Oct 21, 2007 (84 photos)

... him and he got a massive splash of red in the face!  We got on the roof of the next bus, heading to Sauraha Chowk, a small market town just outside Sauraha itself.  On that rooftop spoke to some guy who'd also done 4years of physics in uni, but ...

Sauraha (Chitwan National Park)
Aug 10, 2006 (53 photos)

... of small things - i loved it! We also leave today so straight from the elephant treck we packed and got out of the hot hot heat at Sauraha (Chitwan National Park)although the hotel staff were being less than helpful allowing us to leave! Kathmandu Next!

Elephant washing
Dec 7, 2008 (9 photos)

On a whim, I decided to go with a girl I d met at the hostel to go and wash some elephants in Chitwan. Chitwan is a national park and area of jungle. You can take trips into the jungle on elephants, by jeep or canoe, but I was quite happy just to save ...

Elephants, Monkeys, Rhinos, Crocodiles, oh my!!
Dec 4, 2007

... had to walk away as she would not leave me alone. It's not like I had any money on me to give. I arrived at the Sauraha Resort early in the afternoon and was happy to be away from all the busy cities and stress and finally into the jungle. They fed me ...

The Mighty Jungle
Nov 3, 2009 (5 photos)

After a 2 day rafting trip on the River Seti, we arrived in Sauraha, near Chitwan National Park. The rafting took us down river quite peacefuly with rapids popping up every now and again. The first days rapids were very tame, but we had a good location for ...

Chitwan
Feb 15, 2008 (32 photos)

... Julianna (from Columbia) who I met yesterday and she invited me to Kirtipur on Monday so that is where I will be on Monday. Sauraha is a really laid back town where you see elephants walking down the main street with ox cart and horse and cart. Simona ( ...

Nepal
Apr 13, 2007

... biting, half the group ill. No not me I am doing fine. Creaking gates and all that. We had to get our visas for Nepal it took about 2 hours to get through. We collapsed into an hotel eat and went to bed. Still so very hot. We travelled upto ...

Chillin in Chitwan
Dec 6, 2008

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Royal Chitwan National Park- Welcome to the Jungle
Dec 13, 2007 (10 photos)

... house. It was part of the tour and I was not really looking forward to this. In some of my travels before coming to Nepal I've been to "traditional" tribe dwellings for some cultures and more often than not they turned out to be some made-for-tourist lame ...

If it's a rhino climb up a tree, if it's a tiger..
Dec 7, 2007

... in training. He is Tharu and was raised in the nearby village. We saw crocodiles, peacocks, nepali love birds (ducks). Nepal houses 30% of the world's species of birds amongst its borders; 600 in Chitwan National Park, and that doesn;t include the 300 ...

Rainbow Safari resort
Nov 24, 2009 (15 photos)

Lever tres matinal a 6h du matin, petit dejeuner pas trop mal, oeufs et patates aux poivrons, toasts et the. Puis depart pour une balade en pirogue sur la riviere, aux abords du parc. Le temps est brumeux mais nous pouvons voir quand meme plusieurs ...

Sauraha
Nov 18, 2006 (2 photos)

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Chitwan NP
Oct 30, 2009 (36 photos)

... Parc Nacional de Chitwan es una de les excursions que figuren en qualsevol programa, organitzat o per lliure, d'aquells que visiten Nepal. L'atraccio principal es poder fer un safari sobre elefants per avistar rinoceronts, i si es te sort, cal tenir molta ...

Royal Chitwan National Park- The Quest for Tigers
Dec 15, 2007 (14 photos)

... . You know when he told us this, during our first night here, I seriously considered his offer since I had about a week left in Nepal. How fantastic, or frightening, would it be to see a tiger here in the wild? But Mazen was quick to throw cold water on ...

Little Buddha und die Reisernte
Nov 5, 1992

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There be tigers... Chitwan, Nepal 13-17 Dec
Dec 13, 2009 (93 photos)

... . We arrive in sonali, a squalid two street border town after a days bus ride late at night. We walk across the border to Nepal and gain our visa’s by candlelight, with men with guns and feral kids lurking in the shadows of all the parked up coaches ...

Chitwan National Park
Apr 23, 2007 (2 photos)

Elephants are enormous, 5 tonnes of enormous and we sat on one. In fact four of us sat and one and marched through the jungle for a couple of hours. I was mildly disappointed that they didn't plod along trunk gripping tail in front Jungle Book style. That ...

Royal Chitwan National Park- Elephant Day
Dec 14, 2007 (58 photos)

Royal Chitwan National Park Elephants are my new favourite animal. There's just something about these gentle giants that is hard to fully describe. First of all, they always look that they are smiling. Secondly, their trunks are probably the most ...