Chitwan Jungle Safari

The Sherpa Mountain Journey offers Chitwan Jungle Safari tour in Chitwan National Park. Chitwan is popular for wilderness of rich ecosystem that includes mammals, birds, reptiles and water animals of numerous kinds.

There are the 500 Asian one-horned rhinoceros (One-Horned Rhino) and some hundred nocturnal Royal Bengal Tigers that live in the dense forests of the park. You will discover a lost world of towering trees and twisting vines, of pre-historic rhino and lumbering elephants, crocodiles, pythons and deer; brilliantly colored birds and if you are fortunate – the superb Royal Bengal Tiger. Sharing home with these are other animals like rhesus monkey, grey langur, and leopards.

We also introduce you Tharu Culture, their life style, traditional cultural dance and tradition in Tharu village.Elephant back safari, jungle walk, canoe ride, jeep drive, bathing and swimming with elephants are main activities in Chitwan.

Day to Day Activities in Chitwan

Day One

Drive from Kathmandu to Chitwan.
14:00 Lunch at Chitwan
15:00 Visit Tharu village
16:00 – Visit to the National Park Visitor’s center where you can learn more about the history of the National Park and about wildlife.
6:30 – Tharu cultural dance presentation by the local villagers or a slide show presentation.
20:00 Dinner.

Day Two

05:30 – Wake up call.
5:45 – An excellent opportunity to see a great many of those 524 different species of birds found in Chitwan.
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 – Canoe ride along the Rapti river. An excellent opportunity for bird watching and for seeing the 2 rare species of crocodiles; the Marsh Mugger and the fish eating Gharial.
9:30 – Elephant backsafari. An excellent opportunity to see four different kinds of deer, rhinoceros, wild boar, monkeys, leopard, sloth bear and the Royal Bengal Tiger (if you are lucky). You will also encounter many other smaller mammals that have made Chitwan their home.
11:30 – Lunch
13:00 – Jeep Safari through the grasslands, riverine forests and sal forests to Kasara (the National Park’s head quarters) Gharial hatchery farm where you will learn about how crocodiles are brought up at this farm & then later released into the rivers.
20:00 – Dinner.

Day Three

06:00 – Wake up call.
06:00 – Breakfast
07:00 – Drive back to Kathmandu