Riding on an elephant through Chitwan National Park showed me many amazing wonders that the park had to offer. Trying to hold on and balance three metres in the air, on a platform strapped to a three tonne elephant while it bumpily lumbered along the forest paths, was by no means easy. It also didn’t [...]
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We don’t always get a chance to shower every day (no facilities, no time, too tired, no hot water, or perhaps we are just grots) so when we do bother, it makes sense to make an occasion of it. This particular occasion involved Zoe being brave enough (and subsequently, Mitchell was talked into it) to get [...]
Chitwan National Park is major animal jungle reserve, World Heritage listed, containing tigers, sloth bears, buffalo, crocodiles, leopards, wild elephant, rhinos, and other animals that will eat you (or at least stomp on you) given half a chance, along with deer, monkeys etc etc. A common way to wander through it is to climb aboard an elephant [...]
It was us kids’ first time rafting. I didn’t really know what to expect but I was pretty sure it would be a lot of fun, not knowing that I was going to get sick halfway through. Zoe looked so small in her huge helmet and fat, foam, lifevest. We were all on one raft, [...]
White Water Rafting and Knifed Politicans
Posted: 10 December, 2011 in 2011: Chitwan N.P., 2011: NepalTo get from Pokhara to Sauraha (Chitwan National Park), we opted out of the 7 hour bus ride and instead took a bus 1.5 hours, then spent an hour trying to dig the bus out of the sand next to the river, then 2 days rafting down the Seti River (about 5-6 hours rafting total), [...]
