📌 Quick Summary: Our Stance on Elephant Riding
- Zero Elephant Exploitation: Jungle Nepal Adventure strictly refuses elephant back rides, staged elephant bathing, or visits to chained camps.
- The Hidden Reality: Asian elephants are wild animals. To carry heavy wooden saddles and tourists, calves undergo the traumatic phajaan (crush box training).
- The True Alternative: Tracking genuinely wild, free-roaming elephant herds on foot and jeep safaris in Bardia National Park.
Every year, thousands of visitors arrive in Sauraha, outside Chitwan National Park, drawn by outdated colonial imagery of riding high atop an elephant. Yet behind this postcard lies one of the harshest realities of Asian tourism. At Jungle Nepal Adventure, our commitment is absolute: we stand firmly against elephant riding and champion 100% wild, ethical wildlife encounters.
