Chitwan is in the southern, low altitude flat part of Nepal called the Terai. It took a harrowing 6 hour car ride to get here. It is still festival time, when most people travel to visit family, and traffic is as bad as it could possibly be. It took an hour just to get out of Kathmandu. The cars were literally jammed wall to wall. There are no lanes, and if there is an inch to spare to fit your car in ahead of you, you just go for it. From Kathmandu there is a long descent down winding roads, and there was so much traffic that every 10 minutes or so, everything just stopped so long that everyone turned off there engines and waited, got out to walk around.
When we were moving, it was interesting to watch the driver as he passed cars around a corner without being able to see what was coming, but he'd be honking the whole way to let another car know he was coming. Seems to work... I guess...
I arrived in Chitwan yesterday afternoon, and it is tropical, hot and humid. Hard to believe that two days ago I was in the Himalayas. There is just me, but there are several other groups at the hotel here. We stay in jungle style thatched roof cottages.
The first thing I did yesterday, late afternoon, was an elephant ride into an area of the park with tall grass, to look for one-horned rhino. We were lucky and saw two of them.
This morning we went for a ride in a dugout canoe down the river, and spotted several types of birds, the most beautiful of which was the kingfisher. We also saw the infamous mugger crocodile, which is actually quite dangerous.
Afterward we went to the elephant breeding area. The youngest elephant is only 5 months old.
When we were moving, it was interesting to watch the driver as he passed cars around a corner without being able to see what was coming, but he'd be honking the whole way to let another car know he was coming. Seems to work... I guess...
I arrived in Chitwan yesterday afternoon, and it is tropical, hot and humid. Hard to believe that two days ago I was in the Himalayas. There is just me, but there are several other groups at the hotel here. We stay in jungle style thatched roof cottages.
The first thing I did yesterday, late afternoon, was an elephant ride into an area of the park with tall grass, to look for one-horned rhino. We were lucky and saw two of them.
This morning we went for a ride in a dugout canoe down the river, and spotted several types of birds, the most beautiful of which was the kingfisher. We also saw the infamous mugger crocodile, which is actually quite dangerous.
Afterward we went to the elephant breeding area. The youngest elephant is only 5 months old.
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