Bathing with elephants
Posted May 6, 2007 
Comments(4)
Comments(4) 
There are quite a few activities on offer for the tourists in and around the Royal Chitwan National Park. By far the most fun of all is for sure bathing with the elephants.
Every day before noon the mahouts (‘elephant driver’) bring their elephants to the river to wash and scrub them. For a small tip you can join them, help them scrub, and frolic in the water together with the big grey. The elephants seem to enjoy it as much as the tourists do.
If you know some Hindi, you can even try to give “your” elephant commands like ‘ooper do’, and if you got it right he will splash you with water from his trunk 
I had great fun and it was a good conclusion for my all to short Nepal adventure.
ooper doooooooo!
namaste zubi!
this must have been wonderful. when i had still my horse django we quite often used to go to the lake to have a bath or even a swim together, which was always great.
so you chose the bigger animal
all the best, and now i am following you a bit better in terms of blogger activity
That sounds like a lot of fun!
[...] manages to take a bath with elephants at Royal Chitwan National Park (Nepal). Sounds like a lot of fun. It is a world heritage site too. [...]