Rhinos

We've spent our first week in Nepal and taken in quite a bit.

The first few days were spent in Kathmandu taking some of the local sites, including the Durba (Palace) square and its temples and the nearby town of Patan, also for temple viewing. I'd put up a picture, but we forgot to take the camera on both trips (yes, boneheads both of us).

After that we went to Chitwan national park in search of the endangered black rhino. When we arrived it was raining, and continued to rain the entire next day and night - hence we cancelled our planned walk in the morning and decided to take an elephant in the morning as well as in the afternoon as planned.

In still pouring rain our elephant took off (well, lumbered anyway) and after three hours in the rain and forest we'd managed to see two deers, two boars and two pheasants; not exactly what we were looking for. Soaked to the bone we deliberated all day as to whether we'd cancel the afternoon trip, but finally pragmatism took us once again onto the elephants back. On our second attempt, success - we saw four of the rhinos including a juvenile. Feeling quite like David Attenborough we returned to the hotel with gigantic smiles.