Chitwan

Chitwan National Park, Nepal – 2010. After the Habitat 2010 Everest Build the Canadian team took a long bus ride to Chitwan National Park for a few days. We stayed at the Hotel Parkland in Sauraha which is a town just outside of Chitwan National Park. We did a number of tours including an elephant ride through Baghmara Community Forest which is a buffer zone to the park, a Tharu cultural village and an elephant breeding center. It was a nice change of pace after two weeks of hard work. Chitwan National Park is a world heritage site in south central Nepal and is over 900 km2. Wildlife includes the Bengal Tiger, leopards, Indian Rhino, elephants, crocodiles, monkeys, deer and many types of birds.
A wood carver outside the Baghmara Community Forest entrance.
A baby Indian rhino and a blackbird that was a constant companion
Mother and baby rhino
Spotted deer, Baghmara Community Forest, Nepal
Two young male spotted deer, Baghmara Community Forest, Nepal
A dugout canoe being poled upriver
The elephants took tips and passed them on to the mahouts
A male dancer in women’s cloths. Part of the cultural show provided by the Hotel Parkland in Sauraha
The river and a dugout canoe
Shore bird
Kingfisher. We saw a lot of these very colourful birds when we were on the river.
We walked beside this river and also did a canoe ride down part of it. There are lots of wild animals around because we saw the tracks, but unfortunately, not…
An egret looking for food
A Bengal Tiger footprint in the mud.
Vines growing up a tree
A young male spotted deer lying in the grass
A Rhino footprint
We passed this small lake in the jungle on one of our walks. There was one large croc in the lake and we saw the tracks of a small one the path we were walking…
A baby elephant with its mother at the Elephant Breeding Center near Chitwan National Park
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