Blogs from Chitwan, Nepal, Asia - page 20

Modern lifestyle and its pressures often create a desire amongst individuals to explore new vistas, to tread new roads and to climb new mountains. It was the same desire which inspired me to choose and explore a new destination for myself, like I do every year. Well this time it was to experience life in a jungle. Situated in the landlocked country of Nepal, Chitwan National Park is one of the most popular forest reserves in Asia. It is extremely rich in its flora and fauna and is home to the last populations of the single-horned Asiatic rhinoceros and the royal Bengal tiger. I arranged my 3 days and 2 nights’ stay at the Machan Wildlife Resort. It was a four hour scenic drive by car from Pokran in Nepal to the resort. The people at ... read more

Chitwan National Park was created in 1973 but has been protected since 19th century by becoming a hunting reserve of Nepali. Strangely the fact it was actually a hunting reserve may acted to protect it from habitant loss. In 1950s when King Mahendra heard only 100 rhinos and 20 tigers remained in the area and removed the peasants. The Park consists of Forest, Marshes and grassland and is home many wildlife species including the horned Indian Rhino, tigers and leopards. But sadly much has been lost under Maoist struggles as conflicts have prevented the protection of this valuable region. With the opportunity to see tigers and elephants I was very much looking forwarding to getting to Chitwan but the trip there was not without a few embarassments. Chandra miss understood the location of a toilet at ... read more

And yes, after all the adventures on our river ... we made it to chitwan, where we wanted to give our friends a relaxing time between the wild animals of Nepal ... If we all survived??? Yes we did, but we saw our lives passing before our eyes a few more times .. when the wild chicken came dangerously close to Amber and Kay...when Mike almost got stuck under the elephant during his showertime ... when Marc discovered the big mountain of rhinopoop still fresh and warm ... when Kalu had to give Leen the bill from 17 glasses of Rum in one evening ... dangerous moments for all of them ... but we all survived!... read more

Oh gosh, where to begin - it’s like a whole other world over here. I’ve been in Nepal for 2 weeks almost and am still getting used to the culture. I have so much to tell you all - this country is amazing! I guess I should probably start with the details of my arrival in Nepal - what a disaster! After saying a teary goodbye to mom and Kirbi in Frankfurt, I was getting pretty excited to start the next part of my journey, alone, in Nepal. I arrived in Bangkok around 6:30 am on October 1st after a long day of flying from Athens to Frankfurt and then on to Bangkok. I was really excited to be on my way to my last flight to Kathmandu, when the worst thing happened. I got to ... read more

Although we had read about it in the Nepal guide weeks ago, we'd totally forgotten about Chitwan National Park until we were standing in the lobby of our guest house in Kathmandu. The photo of our favourite guru, Sai Baba (pictured with Ade in the Kodaikanal blog entry), was smiling down at us from various vantage points and as Ash followed his gaze she saw a poster and hence we were reminded. And how fortunate for us that we were! We left the following morning at 7am on a bus journey that lasted roughly 7 hours stopping for lunch en route. As we were daydreaming out of the window we spotted a bus carcass that had clearly mis-judged a corner (of which there were many) and landed neatly in some trees halfway down a ravine. Confidence ... read more