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Elephants Rock!

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Chitwan National Park

April 5-7, 2007

I thought it would be difficult to top our jungle walk, but Gupal still had more surprises in store for us. That afternoon, he took us to the Baghmara Bufferzone on the outskirts of the park where we did an elephant safari.

Apparently, elephants aren’t afraid of anything (even mice) and nothing in the jungle is stupid enough to attack one so we felt perfectly safe from our high perch. This time, over the course of 2 hours, we got to see 10 different rhinos, including mothers with their babies.

They seemed unperturbed by our presence as they bathed or grazed serenely while we snapped dozens of photos. We also saw many monkeys, mongooses (mongeese?), peacocks and exotic birds before our elephants dropped us off by the river to watch the sunset. What an amazing day! [read on]

Walk softly and carry a big stick!

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Chitwan National Park
April 4-5, 2007

When we returned to Katmandu, we discovered that the temperature had risen over 10 degrees since we left and was now hovering in the low thirties. This had created an inversion effect and a heavy blanket of smog had settled over the city, making it hard to breathe. We still had almost ten days to go before leaving for India, so Bishnu organized a car and driver to take us to Chitwan National Park for a jungle safari and to Nagarkot and Bhaktapur for sightseeing. The five hour drive to Chitwan was interesting, to say the least, with cars, motorcycles and buses all competing for the narrow, winding road that clung to the mountain high above the Kali Gandaki River. Drivers passed each other with horns blaring on blind turns and I wondered how the people perched on top of the buses managed to keep from falling off as the buses careened around the harepin bends. [read on]