After spending a few more days recouping in the hippy trekker town of Pokhara, Alan and I decided to treat ourselves to the ultimate Nepalese tourist experience, Chitwan National Park. We both wanted a break from planning and we signed up for a package with a preset itinerary. Three and a half days filled with an elephantastic tour of activities. There was the elephant and jeep safari through the jungle to look for rhinos, a canoe ride down the river, a nature walk (where we were able to get up close and personal with a rhino. He must have been only 25 meters away and when he moved everyone ran, including someone’s guide who bee lined it up a tree – always comforting!), and perhaps the best was when we were picked up at our hotel by an elephant and rode him bareback down to the river for his bath time.
All photos for Chitwan and the following entry for Varanasi are thanks to our friend Ella, who we ran into again in Pushkar. Out of everything in the backpack that was lost I will miss the photos of Alan and me bareback on the elephants while they are in the river the most, maybe we will try and superimpose ourselves at a later date, for now we can use our imagination.
-Mika
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