Thursday, May 12, 2016

Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal

We stayed in the middle of rural Nepal for two nights in a community. It was a stunning area surrounded by farmland. The entire community was very excited to greet us and took great care if all of our needs for the three days we were there.

Over our stay Christina and I did a bike tour of the area - luckily we found elephants playing in the water. Not wild elephants but elephants owned by the resorts but no longer working. Still exciting. We also did a safari into the park itself. The only thing we saw was 4 rhinos in the distance. It was hot and dusty otherwise. Break time with bananas and juice boxes reminded me of little kid soccer snack time. Otherwise, it was just kicking around the farm area and community without air conditioning in 36+. The food was amazing though. All fresh home cooked meals. Momo is a traditional Nepalese dish that is incredible. I'm going to make them when I get home they are that good. I'd recommend staying in this area if you get the chance. It is quite relaxed and peaceful.

The park itself covers 20% of Nepal. In the park there is 40 types of butterflies, 600 rhinos, 200 tigers and countless leopards. We didn't see tigers or leopards - just rhinos from afar.

Nepal only declared its constitution last year. One of the major tenants is mandatory education by 2022. It has a population of 33M of which 81% is Hindu. There is estimated over 500M Hindu followers worldwide. If your bored and want to nude stand why Christina and I have slept in shitty hard beds for the entire trip Google the tenants of Hinduism. One of them is no comfortable bed.

AFN

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