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2008/2009 Nepal & India

Day 36: Chitwan > Kathmandu

4 January 2009

Another early start at 5:45am when I got up and headed out into the cold jungle for a nature walk.  SB is feeling better but not enough to come with me (light weight).  We headed into the jungle and learnt about the local flora i.e. get stuck in the jungle and the sap of the Blackberry bush taken with water twice a day stops the runs – could be handy.  We also learnt that the park is open in January and July for locals to harvest different flowers and shrubs.  We walked through the jungle for about 45 minutes before heading back to the resort, where miracles occurred and the mysterious blue-eyed bunny arose and slowly ate a piece of toast.

We left on our canoe at 8:45am to get our bus to Bharaktpur Heights Transit Resort wher we waited for 20 minutes for the bus to kathmandu.  We were seated at the back of the bus and my seat back was broken, but the bus was packed so we had no option to change.  the ride was the bumpiest I have ever encountered, the Nepalese roads are in shocking conditions, not helped by the volume of trucks etc on the roads.  As usual the scenery once we on the main Pljkhara road was of people living in shacks right next to the road and of a constant stream of litter.

We got dropped off where we had after the trek and escorted a few people back to Thamel as they didn’t know the way.

We headed to our hotel where our reservation was fine and collected our other luggage and had a hottish shower and got into our last clean clothes and had dinner in the hotel.  I put SB to bed after raiding the spare duvet in the main areas as it seems incredibly cold here in kathmandu.