CHITWAN - NEPAL

Chitwan was flat unlike the rest of Nepal and was also looking more like pictures I had seen of India. Had the usual first day look around and walked through several local villages. A night I bumped into a few people I talked to in Bandipur a few days earlier. We sat around a fire and had a few beers.


I had also booked a combined elephant trek (morning) and jungle walk later in the afternoon for the following day.



The two and a half hour trek included half an hour each way going through the streets to the actual national park which I thought was a bit of a con.


After visiting exotic forests in Borneo and Sumatra it was strange to be there but without the heat and humidity. In fact it felt the same as an early cold morning back home.



Seeing the Rhinos were great and several deer as well. The Elephant ride got uncomfortable after about an hour.

Later that day was the trek, now while it was good to see the Rhinos on top of the elephant well out of harms way I was a bit uncomfortable about walking into there.

Before we reached the woodland we were given a safety talk on the Rhinos, Sloth Bears, Tigers and Cobras !!!!!!!


As soon as we headed out on the walk it became obvious that we were not going to see anything by the way the guide spoke to us. With the exception of a few monkeys and the strange insects pictured above that was it.

Headed back to Kathmandu the following day....