Delhi to Kathmandu – Chitwan National Park

Image above: Three local kids strike a pose for the camera whilst the toddler looks on. [Wednesday 04 February]

Following on from the long drive to get to Chitwan National Park, here’s the photo set on our two days in this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Some of the highlights were:

• Playing with the cute yet hairy baby elephants at the Elephant Breeding Centre and almost getting run over by one when I was too busy trying to photograph another!
• Watching the gorgeous scenery and various basking crocodiles, birds, and even a bathing rhino pass by as we took a dugout boat down the Rapati River into the heart of the park
• Having a line of elephants interrupt lunch, as you do, as they passed through on the way back to one of the local villages
• Hiding behind a tree in preparation for a possible charge by a grazing rhino. FYI, they can run at 40 miles an hour … basically 28 miles per hour faster than you and I!
• Taking an early morning walk through the village of Ghatgain and came across some local kids that I had a lot of fun photographing as well as their family too. And I think that I kinda got offered one of the girls as a potential wife … though I quickly and delicately declined. Not something that I was thinking of bringing back on this trip!!!
• Being randomly invited into a local’s house to chat with her son who’s trying to put together some money for university and meet her daughter who just gave birth

Coming up next … the final leg of this trip … getting to Katmandu!

[View the Chitwan National Park photo set]