Wasting no time after our trek, we signed up for a 2 night 3 day excursion to Chitwan National Park. Famous for tigers, elephants, and rhinos, visiting the jungle is one of the must-do activities during a trip to Nepal. We opted to go through an organized tour rather than going independently because we wanted to go during one of Nepal's many festivals. It would have been a bit like trying to fly to Florida on Christmas Eve by showing up at the airport without a ticket. Not worth the hassle!

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Trekking in Nepal is one of those adventures that captured my imagination from an early age. It was always the fun, slightly askew destination for people of all ages. In books and TV shows, characters that found themselves disenchanted with life and wanting to get away might end up in the exotic sounding "Kathmandu." It turns out, trekking wasn't all what I expected. It was better.

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Of the 4 countries we've visited, Nepal has the greatest selection of foods. Nearly every restaurant will have a continental food section, and french fries are available everywhere for those culinary cowards - for the first week, I counted myself among them. These days it's rare for me to have any dish with a name I can pronounce.

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