Nature has reclaimed Tiger Tops, once Asia’s best wildlife lodge Recently I visited what is left of Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge. Although yellow shafts of sunlight dappled the trees deep within the national park, and the sandy road was thick…
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One day of life in the jungle
Long before the term ecotourism was coined, an initiative in Nepal rooted in conservation and community was hailed as one of Asia’s best “Welcome to Tiger Tops. We’ll be leaving on the elephants for a jungle safari once the aircraft has…
Gaida Sahib
Andrew Laurie, Chitwan’s Rhino Man, did pioneering research into the endangered animals We thread our way between the thinning trees along an earthen trail back to Andrew Laurie’s research camp near Sauraha on the edge of Royal Chitwan National Park. Not…
Shooting the rapids
The pioneers of the early days of river running in Nepal One of the more turbulent rapids on the Trisuli River trip is named Snell’s Nose (or used to be). Col John Blashford Snell was on an early rafting recce…
Little Buddha comes to town
When Kathmandu Valley became the location for a Bertolucci film An old man taps the grey head of the carved lion in confusion. It had not been here last week, and only the hollow ring distinguishes it from the twin…