Sri Lanka is famed for its many fine beaches, wildlife parks populated with herds of elephants and solitary leopards, stunningly beautiful hill country where colonial era bungalows on tea estates have been converted into boutique hotels, and the well preserved remains of Buddhist temples and forts from the 5th century in its central cultural triangle. The remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan is a near timeless land of antique architecture, living monasteries, enchanted forests and mountain wilderness almost untouched by the modern world. Nepal has a vast choice of well established mountain treks from gentle walks around the Kathmandu Valley to serious accents to the summit of Everest. In the lowland jungles of the Terai there are wildlife parks with rhinoceros, tiger, leopard and sloth bears and white water rivers