22.35°C Kathmandu.jpg)
Sat, Aug 30, 2025
Visual Stories
Elephant Festival highlights Elephant Picnic on Saturday
The event, organised to coincide with Christmas and the English New Year, will continue until Monday.
Prakash Chandra Timilsena
Published at : December 28, 2024
Updated at : December 29, 2024 10:30
The 18th Elephant and Tourism Festival, which began in Sauraha on Thursday, featured the Elephant Picnic on Saturday. The event, organised to celebrate Christmas and the English New Year, will continue until Monday. Hosted by the Regional Hotel Association, the festival is being held at the Bagmara Buffer Zone Community Forest in Chitwan.
The festival includes unique attractions such as the Elephant Picnic, Penalty Shoot-Out, and Beauty Contest.
During the Elephant Picnic, a grand feast was organised for 35 elephants, featuring treats like dragon fruit, sugarcane, bananas, melons, maize, bread, and cooked rice.
This annual event has become a symbol of cultural heritage and wildlife tourism, attracting both domestic and international visitors.
Prakash Chandra Timilsena
Prakash Chandra Timilsena is the photo editor of Kantipur Publications. Before joining the Post in 2012, he spent more than seven years working as a photojournalist for various national daily and weekly newspapers.
×