Great nights sleep then up early for our elephant ride, great experience, (although my water bottle splitting and leaking 750ml of water over me, looked like I'd peed myself!) Very difficult to take pics from atop a moving elephant I found, however, thanks to an abundance of Chinese tourists, all wearing neon clothing and talking/shouting very loudly (and one smoking on an elephant??!!) the only thing we saw was deer. Now I love deer as much as the next person (i...

After rafting, drove to the Terai region and Chitwan national park. Very different to the mountains we had been used to, lots of fields and stupidly humid (we were recommended to drink 4 litres of water a day). On arriving we had another well needed shower (washing whilst rafting was a dip in the river en route and baby wipes) and unpacked for 2 whole days in the same place!!! We were introduced to our guide who I am convinced looked like a Nepalese version of Mi...