4 nights/5 days (camping) Special program
Day 1 : Arrival in Thakurdwara (Bardia Np) check in Racy shade resort. After the lunch, village visit. You will visit the temple area, you will enter in a real typical tharu house and see the local life. You will also visit Bardia National park visitor centre with its crocodile farm. dinner and night in Racy shade resort.
Day 2: Jeep and Elephant safari after an early breakfast, you will go in the national park in a jeep. This is a good excursion to discover the geography of the park and the different ecosystems. In some areas we can go down the car for small walks.
After lunch, in the afternoon you will go on elephant back for a safari (2h30). Elephants are very adapted to go inside the vegetation and give good possibilities to get close to rhinos dinner and night in RSR
Day 3: After breakfast, we drive one hour to Chisapani, over the Karnali Bridge where we have a typical lunch (with local fish) in typical restaurant. After lunch we begin the floating safari (on raft). There are no big rapids on the river and this excursion offers good opportunities for magnificent landscapes and birdlife among other animals.
In the evening, we pitch the tents on a sandy beach (just across the river, outside NP) and we go in a very remote and authentic Tharu village for cultural dances and dinner (A big must of the Bardia trip). After the program we go back to the tents where a big wood fire awaits us. Night in tents
Day 4: Jungle walk (full day) After an early picnic breakfast, we will cross the river and go on foot in the national park for the day with a naturalist guide and a porter. There are good possibilities to see one horned rhino, wild asian elephants or Bengal tiger among other animals. Picnic lunch dinner and night in RSR
Day 5: Free morning (possibilities for optional activities to be paid on spot) After lunch drive to Nepalgunj airport in private vehicle (2h30)
