2022
@SovitaD very nice experience of wildlife safari and white water river rafting.The experience with wild elephant makes your travel more interesting and adventurous.
Nepal is very famous for such activities but till now I don't have any experience of fast flowing white water river rafting. There was lots of plans for rafting but till now its just a plan. I am so jealous to see such photos and videos.
Nepal local guides lets plan for rafting meet up in future. Lets rafts NLG.
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@SovitaD wrote:
I was delighted to get the proposal for visiting Bardia from @LaxmiG1 and instantly checked for the dates 12th and 13th May. Periods free days-weekend-its perfect, so I said "Okay Lets Go" but still I was not assured until the tickets were confirmed. I was too much excited for the trip as this was my first visit to the most western part of Nepal after Dang.
Bardia National Park Entrance
Fortunately, we got our ticket moved so didn't have long wait at airport and reached Nepalgunj at around 6:00PM and had a fine stay at Kitchen Hut.Nepali Khana Set
Mushroom Duplex
On Saturday we were adjoined by another friend-our real guide, Noyendra who took us to Bardia Adventure Resort for lunch after 2 hours drive from Nepalgunj, the place resembled its name and the resort had its own history. They had planned a Jeep safari for us so we went for Safari with other groups.We were not lucky enough (in fact we didn't have patience to wait for hours) to see the tigers in their natural habitat so we were a bit disheartened but happy to have that wonderful excursion.We Two During Safari
She says "I am Beautiful " 😉
Tharu Cultural dance was arranged at the evening for which LaxmiG seemed much more excited, she borrowed the dress and danced with them due to poor outdoor lighting those memories could not captured satisfactorily.
Cultural dance:LaxmiG with Tharu Cultural Dance Group
During Dinner the plan for Sunday was to go to Banana Resort at Tikapur and visit Chisapani bridge and return back to Nepalgunj for next mornings flight despite of the rumors of Strike assuming that it won't affect those areas.
Somebody knocked our door early morning and said there is no chance to take vehicles out of the National Park Area due to Nepal Banda (it's a kind of strike where people are not allowed to run vehicles all over the country)
Only choice for us was Rafting, Noyendra was not interested for rafting so only two of us joined others for that day.
We drove all the way to Chisapani bridge through the dense forest of National Park and started rafting beneath the Karnai -Chisapani Bridge. Being in the middle of Karnali (largest river of nepal) and beautiful bridge in the background, for a while I remembered the moment at Cruise Ride to Golden Gate Bridge.Rafting Begins
Excited !!
She is Busy watching birds
Encountered a Wild Elephant - Experienced most dangerous encounter ever in life (We thought that was the end of our life)
We were bored after few hours , guides were motivating us with the possibility to see the Tigers ahead.We were not allowed to make noise or even talk in some of the areas .
All of a sudden in a turning we saw an Elephant,our boat was taken to another side immediately. Elephant had already noticed us he gave a dangerous look.
Firstly I thought it was normal as we used to see friendly elephants in Chitwan, later our guide instructed us to remain completely quiet and get out of boat slowly. When I noticed the guides themselves were shivering then heartbeat almost stopped, we hide behind the bushes and had taken few video clips apart from being frightened.
Few TIPS:
1. Nepali domestic flights are often not on scheduled time so be prepared for that.
2. Flight rates fluctuates often so keep on updated for lowest cost as far as possible.
3. Be prepared with plenty of water to beat the heat.
4. For Rafting have some energy drinks and chocolate bars on your own, which might not be provided by organizers as per the expectation.
5. Be prepared how to spend 6 hours on water, one can get bored and scared after few hours.
6. Do not just fall off the boat unless getting OK signal from guide, crocodiles may appear in some shallow area of Girwa River.
7. Be prepared for Do's and Don't Dos if encountered wild Elephants,Tiger or Rhinos.
Hey there my friend Sovita 🙂
What a lovely post.
I love it. Thanks for sharing and you forgot to tag me. Hahahaaaa 😄😄😄
Cheers
Looks like you had a fun trip, @SovitaD. And thanks for those tips at the end. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
