Bathing with elephants

Posted May 6, 2007
bathing with elephants
 
 

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.

4 Comments so far

  1. thomi on May 9th, 2007

    ooper doooooooo!

  2. sarah on May 16th, 2007

    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 :D all the best, and now i am following you a bit better in terms of blogger activity ;)

  3. Mridula on May 27th, 2007

    That sounds like a lot of fun!

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