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Asia tours in Nepal are a fantastic way to experience the unspoiled natural environment of this Himalayan country. Travelers can stay at the Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge in the heart of the Chitwan National Park, which boasts 360 square miles of some of the finest forest and grassland in Asia, not to mention elephants and tigers too.

Over the last half-century, tigers have become extinct in Korea, Java, Bali and China, where it's feared that the last Indo-Chinese tiger was eaten by a peasant in 2009. Poaching has brought these great cats to the brink of extinction in Siberia, Cambodia, Laos, Thaliand, Malaysia and Vietnam as well. Getting to Tiger Tops is quite a journey in itself, which involves a flight on a small plane, a drive over dirt roads in a Land Rover, crossing the Narayani river by kayak, and a drive through a forest of sal trees to the heart of what had once been private hunting grounds of the Nepalese kings.