The Royal Chitwan National Park (Chitwan Forest, Leopard Forest) is a national park in Nepal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located 200 km from Kathmandu. Until 1973, the park was a favorite hunting place for Nepalese kings, until it was declared a protected area, the first of the national parks of Nepal. The park is one of the few places in the world where wildlife can be observed in their natural habitat.
There are a lot of picturesque rivers and small lakes in the park. The climate is flat, mild and warm. The park is open for tourists. The visitors live here as a rule in small bungalow-huts or houses. Excursions around the park are carried out on elephants or jeeps. Also, except for jungle safaris on elephants, you can go to car safaris, rafting and canoeing. The main tourist center in the vicinity of the park is Sauraha village (there is internet, there is landline and mobile telephony).
Three-day or weekly tours to Chitwan are offered by any agency in Pokhara or Kathmandu.
Local residents: rhinoceroses (about 500), beaver-sponges, leopards, wild boars, freshwater dolphins, crocodiles, more than 350 bird species and the royal Bengal tiger (about 80). You have to be very unlucky not to meet any of them.
It's best to get acquainted with the life of the jungle from the back of the elephant, and the smell the elephant gets, the more fortunate the walk: its smell is interrupted by the smell of man, and the animals continue to be engaged safely
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| Chitwan |
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| Chitwan at sunset |
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| Elephant, Chitwan |
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| Deer, Chitwan |
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| Rhinoceros, Chitwan |