Jungle Safari in Nepal

Chitwan National Park

The name ‘Chitwan’ has several possible meanings, but the most literal translation of the two NEPALI words that make it up: chit or chita (heart) and wan or ban (jungle). Chitwan is thus ‘the heart of the jungle’. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, cultivation in the valley was deliberately prohibited by the government of

Bardia National Park

More remote and less visited than Chitwan, Bardia is a mixture of dry deciduous forest, vast stretches of open grassland and island-filled rivers, rich with acacia and silk cotton trees. Hiding in the tall grasses or ‘Machans’ on the edges of huge sal forests, wild elephants roam, one of which is reported to be the largest in Asia.