To watch tiger in the Terai region of southern Nepal, a different approach is used. In Bardia National Park, for example, the tigers live in dense thickets and tall stands of elephant grass cut by creeks and marshes. To look for tigers in such terrain, the only realistic option is on elephant back, and this is indeed how tiger watching tours are run. To travel on food through tiger country with very low visibility would be highly risky, and the chances of seeing a tiger safely would be small. No vehicle can negotiate all the different types of terrain except perhaps a very large amphibious all-terrain buggy, but such vehicles would drive off the tigers through engine noise, damage the vegetation with large tyres, and are in any event not available. The elephants have an additional advantage in their own keen senses, which combine with those of their mahouts and the wildlife guides to help locate and approach hidden tigers. The mahout sits on the elephant’s neck, the tourists ride in a kind of shallow wooden box stepped to the elephant’s back with a giant girth, and the guide stands in a special stirrup attached to the back of the box. The seating arrangements are far from comfortable and could easily be much improved, but there do give tourists a unique opportunity to see tigers in the wild. The experience is exciting for several reasons. Riding on elephant back, for one not previously accustomed to the experience, is exciting enough in itself. The tigers themselves, if one is fortunate enough to get a good view, are magnificent animus of stunning power and beauty. And finally, if a tiger is eluding the elephants and they try to encircle it, then the sensation of clinging to a flat wooden frame on top of a charging and trumpeting elephant, knowing that a tiger waits below if on falls off,
To watch tiger in the Terai region of southern Nepal, a different approach is used. In Bardia National Park, for example, the tigers live in dense thickets and tall stands of elephant grass cut by creeks and marshes. To look for tigers in such terrain, the only realistic option is on elephant back, and this is indeed how tiger watching tours are run. To travel on food through tiger country with very low visibility would be highly risky, and the chances of seeing a tiger safely would be small. No vehicle can negotiate all the different types of terrain except perhaps a very large amphibious all-terrain buggy, but such vehicles would drive off the tigers through engine noise, damage the vegetation with large tyres, and are in any event not available. The elephants have an additional advantage in their own keen senses, which combine with those of their mahouts and the wildlife guides to help locate and approach hidden tigers. The mahout sits on the elephant’s neck, the tourists ride in a kind of shallow wooden box stepped to the elephant’s back with a giant girth, and the guide stands in a special stirrup attached to the back of the box. The seating arrangements are far from comfortable and could easily be much improved, but there do give tourists a unique opportunity to see tigers in the wild. The experience is exciting for several reasons. Riding on elephant back, for one not previously accustomed to the experience, is exciting enough in itself. The tigers themselves, if one is fortunate enough to get a good view, are magnificent animus of stunning power and beauty. And finally, if a tiger is eluding the elephants and they try to encircle it, then the sensation of clinging to a flat wooden frame on top of a charging and trumpeting elephant, knowing that a tiger waits below if on falls off,
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