About Terai, Nepal

Chitwan National Park, famous throughout Asia for the variety of its game animals, is one of the few wildlife parks in the world that allows visitors to walk around on foot. The park is home to many rare species, including the Asian one-horned rhinoceros, Bengali tigers, elephants, jackals, hyenas, leopards, rhesus monkeys, and wild boars. Visitors who want to experience the interior of the park can travel down the Rapti River in dugout canoes and camp along the riverbanks. In December of each year, one of the park’s lodges sponsors an elephant polo tournament, perhaps the only sporting event of its kind in the world.