Working Elephants: working elephants in Nepal

Tourists climb on the back of the elephant from the ramp at the starting point for elephant safari. Chitwan national park was established in 1973 and became World Heritage Site in 1984. Since then it became a tourist attraction for Elephant safari. Chitwan National Park is ranked as third biggest attraction after trekking and the Kathmandu Valley. This nature reserve protects 932 sq km of sal forest, water marshes and rippling grassland. The park is one of the last refuges of the endangered one-horned Indian rhino and there are sizeable populations of tigers, leopards and rare Gangetic dolphins.It is estimated that 200,000 tourists visit National Park every year.
working elephants in Nepal

Tourists climb on the back of the elephant from the ramp at the starting point for elephant safari.  

Chitwan national park was established in 1973 and became World Heritage Site in 1984. Since then it became a tourist attraction for Elephant safari.  

Chitwan National Park is ranked as third biggest attraction after trekking and the Kathmandu Valley. This nature reserve protects 932 sq km of sal forest, water marshes and rippling grassland. The park is one of the last refuges of the endangered one-horned Indian rhino and there are sizeable populations of tigers, leopards and rare Gangetic dolphins. 

It is estimated that 200,000 tourists visit National Park every year.