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Travel Blogs from Chitwan, Nepal
Chitwan - There and Back Again
... crack of dawn on Thursday Morning (to yet another power outage) to catch a tourist bus heading in the direction of Chitwan National Park, probably Nepal's most famous nature reserve. A 2-3 hour ride, which I pretty much spent asleep, got us to the rafting ...
Watching rhinos from an elephant
... did return in 5minutes! Where as in India you could be still there waiting the next morning. We booked ourselves a 2 night package to Chitwan National Park to finally see some animals in the wild. On the first day we visited a local village and saw the ...
Jungle fun
I arrived of the bus, hung over, exhausted from the sleepless night spent on a bumpy bus ride, desperate to find a bed and confronted by a sea of touts all screaming for me to go with them to thier hotel. I hope you will understand then when I tell you I ...
Elephant Safaris and Elephant Bathing
The name of this blog entry pretty much sums of the highlights of our time in the tropical Chitwan National Park in the lowlands of Nepal. But before I relate our adventures there, perhaps I should first relate our 'adventure' in getting there. ...
On elephant safari!
... in progress. By some miracle we made it to the town of Sauraha in one piece (well, actually two, but you get the gist). Chitwan National Park is in the south of the country near the border with India. The last census a couple of years ago concluded it ...
Rhinos, tigers and bears in Chitwan
... away just writing it down, realising how incredibly lucky we were to see all these animals during an amazing visit to the Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal. Ok, I've got to admit we didn't actually see a tiger in the wild, we did see one in a ...
Spotting Rhino’s
... it is mainly dust due to it being the dry season. Apparently when the weather is clear you can see mountains all around Chitwan, but today the visibility was very low and we could not see very far into the distance. We went to the conservation ...
Where The Wild Things Are
... so we had a chance of seeing a bit more, which was good. The four biggest animals that live in the forests of Chitwan are the rhinoceros, tiger, sloth bear and bull elephant. Our guide gave us a little talk before entering the forest to warn ...
Where's the toilet seat?
... ; We are considering plastic surgery, however, just to be on the safe side. On from ''Kathmandu'' we visited a national park at ''Chitwan'' with a white water raft on route. The rafting was amazing! Thankfully for me, I prefer a rough ride, ...
Taking a dip with the elephants of Chitwan.
... day we were up early for our jungle trek and drove by jeep through a forest on the way to spot some crocodiles before reaching Chitwan park entrance. There we left the jeep and then had our safety meeting: "if a rhino charges towards us, run in zig zags, ...
Racing with Rhinos
... we eventually picked, roped us in with a pretty good package deal: basically all the things we were planning to do in Chitwan (canoe trip, elephant safari, walking safari), plus free lodging and food for only $75 per person. However, we apparently are ...
A Joke...
"I went to the zoo the other day….It wasn’t very good….the only had one animal………a dog it was a Shiatzu” (Just in case my typing of jokes is as bad as my telling, or you have the mind of my mother breed of dog ...
Nepal but not the mountains
Since we did not want to abandon the lowlands and warm weather we agreed to make Chitwan park our first stop in Nepal. Once we arrived we booked a 2 day trip consisting of 3 hours canoeing (actually we sat in the canoe while a guy did the paddling for ...
The Elephant Man
... it near my destination and negotiated with a horse-and-cart to take me the final 6k to Sauraha on the edge of Royal Chitwan National Park. The festival has continued here and concludes today when brothers and sisters exchange gifts of some type. At this ...
Land of Swings and Elephants
... and I just hope the photos do it justice as they were quite deep in the foliage. The other thing that Nepal and Chitwan had to recommend it was 'real' food. Meat was back on the menu and while I've always been more vegetarian than meat eater ...
My National Geographic Moment
After reluctantly leaving the friendly clutches of the Butwal crew, Stacey and I moved on to Chitwan National Park, reputed to be one of the finest wildlife sanctuaries in Asia and a major highlight of my last trip to Nepal. Unfortunately, we weren't ...
A bit of R n R
I'm off to the airport to pick up my friend Sharon from Dubai. She and I are off to Chitwan National Park followed by Pokhara for a few ...
Greetings to Sydney
At the moment we are back to Kathmandu. We have just spent couple of days in Chitwan National Park, to take a vaccation on our vaccation and to heal from our cold which we both caught in Yunnan. Now is the main season in Nepal for trekking, which means ...
Sur la route de Kathmandu....
Lever tot, 6h30, pour petit dejeuner toujours la meme chose, puis pour aller voir le centre d'elevage d'elephants, specialise dans les naissances. D et H etant tous les deux malades, et pas moi, je suis le seul a y aller. Bien sur comme je suis tout seul ...
chitwan - not more bloody elephants
to be honest i was never going to chitwan national park - i had done animals to death in Asia and too be honest knowing my luck the bloody rhinos would be off having lunch somewhere - but as luck would have it there was an elephant race festival happening ...
Baby-Elebimbams und andere Seltsamkeiten
Bevor wir Nepal wieder verliessen, ging's noch in den ersten Nationalpark unserer Reise, der fuer Rhinozerosse und sogar Tiger bekannt ist. Letztere kann man nicht erwarten zu sehen, wenn man weniger als ne Woche bleibt, aber ein ausgewachsenes Nashorn ...
Jungle Safari
We took a 6 hour bus trip to Chitwan National Park and arrived at the rural village where we would be staying for the next 3 nights. We were now at sea level and I was relieved to find temperatures in the high 20's… no more need for yak wool hats! ...
Le roi de la pedale....
... jamais fait 2h30 de birdwatching et que le manager a Pokhara nous avait mal renseigne. Le hic c'est que c'est son manager ici a Chitwan qui nous a dit ca. Donc il accepte de marcher une demi heure en plus, voyons quand meme de tres beaux paons sauvages, ...
Same same but different!
After a long and scary bus ride we arrived in Sauraha, a little village at the border of Chitwan National Park, catering for all the tourists (us!) who can't afford to stay in one of the up market lodges in the park. After a few here and there’s we ...
Royal Chitwan National Park
... ! It was great to be able to wear shorts and a t-shirt again, the temperature during the day was about 25 C, but at night and in the morning got a bit colder. After Chitwan, there was a one day bus trip throught the winding Nepali roads to ...