Friday, November 3, 2000

Chitwan

Royal Chitwan National Park


Royal Chitwan National Park is in the Terai region of Nepal and used to be the private hunting grounds of the Nepalese royalty. Today it has the largest concentration of rhinos in Asia.

We went through the park on elephant back - and there were about 11 other elephants in our herd. Therefore picture taking was difficult, as our mahout kept jockeying for position and a good shot of the animals (who were justifiably feeling harassed and wouldn't stand still) was rarely if ever present for more than a 10th of a second.


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Interesting spider web : The spider is hiding behind the X (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Interesting spider web
The spider is hiding behind the X

Elephants! : Our transport for the day) (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Elephants!
Our transport for the day)

 (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)


Elephant eye : The eye of wisdom (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Elephant eye
The eye of wisdom

Our steed approaches (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Our steed approaches


Crossing the river (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Crossing the river


Pausing for a drink (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Pausing for a drink


 (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)


Sorry that there are no clear photos - the picture taking was hampered by the 11 other Elephants (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Sorry that there are no clear photos - the picture taking was hampered by the 11 other elephants

 (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)


 (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)


 (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)


Samba Deer : We actually saw 2 (but again - the picture taking was hampered by the mobs of elephants)- the other had 2 sets (that's 4) of antlers - at about 4 points each - does that make it a 16 point buck? (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Samba deer
We actually saw two (but again - the picture taking was hampered by the mobs of elephants)- the other had 2 sets (that's 4) of antlers - at about 4 points each - does that make it a 16 point buck?

Note the elephant's penis drapping in the water - this is to cool the animal : (It looks like the right leg on the leftmost elephant) (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
Note the elephant's penis draping in the water - this is to cool the animal
(It looks like the right leg on the leftmost elephant)

-In the howdah atop our mighty hathi! (Nepal, The Travel Addicts)
-In the howdah atop our mighty hathi!


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