Oh...Nepalese fresh air

We are pleased to say we are nearly 100 percent now and the doctor and chemist did good. We headed south from Kathmandu down to the Chitwan National Park, on the Indian border. They have the largest population of Asian rhinos in the world. They also have over 100 wild tigers and over 50 wild elephants. Although all these are hard to spot.

We are spending 3 nights here staying in Eden Jungle resort (some huts and a restaurant in the village at the edge of the National Park). We have had a guide called Dan who has been brilliant and showed us real tiger tracks on a walk through the forest. We have been on an elephant ride and spotted a rhino with her baby and some antelope. Afterwards we went down to the river and bathed the elephants. This meant we had to climb onto the back of an elephant and get dunked in the river. The elephant kept squirting water at us too with his trunk. Great fun for the kids in you!

Nepal-the last country.

Arrived in Nepal a few days ago and we are glad to say it is very different from India-clean streets, clean food (so far anyway!) and very little harassment from touts and beggars. We went straight to the doctors because we attempted to go in India, but once arriving at the gate we turned quickly round at the site of a variety of ill looking people in dirty conditions. We decided if we entered, we would make ourselves more ill. Anyway, the doctor here established that we had food poisoning and mild dysentry and handed out 4 tablets, 3 times a day for 5 days. He thought it was very amusing by cracking jokes about not being able to have a cake on Craig's birthday.
We are sorted for the rest of our 5 weeks here. Tomorrow we leave for a 4 day trip to the Royal Chitwan National Park and then on to Pokhara to hopefully do a 3 week hike around the Annapurna circuit (depending on our strength, now we are getting better).