20 October 2019
Another early start today as we need to be on the road by 7.30am. We are heading east now towards Chitwan National Park. As we drive we see school children all very neatly dressed in their school uniforms, some waiting for the bus and others cycling. We also notice that as well as rice people are growing lots of other vegetables as well here and we see trucks and tractor trailers full of sacks of potatoes.
We are very near the Indian border here so we see many, many trucks on the road. Initially it is all very flat as we travel across the Terai plains but then there are another crop of hills and we see one truck that has driven off the road and is balanced precariously in a tree and a tanker whose tank has rolled off the edge of the road. Kishor says that the truck drivers mostly try to travel at night when the roads are less busy but sometimes they fall asleep.
There are a lot of road works and a lot of vehicles so it is very slow going. When we are nearly there we find the road blocked by a fallen tree so we have to go via the ‘scenic route’. It seems to us that the road is better here and the houses and neat gardens seem a lot more prosperous than we have seen elsewhere. We are heading for the Barahi Jungle Lodge right on the edge of Chitwan National Park.
- We pass through several towns on the way
- And stop for snacks: some more appealing than others
- And stop for snacks: some more appealing than others (see the skewered chicken heads)
- Barahi Jungle Lodge
- Welcome to Barahi Jungle Lodge
- My chalet: Barahi Jungle Lodge
- My chalet: Barahi Jungle Lodge
- My chalet: Barahi Jungle Lodge
- My chalet: Barahi Jungle Lodge
- Village Walk near Chitwan National Park
- Village Walk near Chitwan National Park
- Village Walk near Chitwan National Park
- Bamboo Swing built for festival
- Harvesting Rice
- Beehives
- Animal shelter
- Buffalo
- Buffalo Cart
- Tending the goats
- Baby goat
- Patchwork goat
- Baby goats curled up on chair
- Bringing home rice straw
- Winnowing Rice
- Separating beans
- Gorgeous children
- Gorgeous children
- Jenny with her ‘flower giver’
- Cool kids
- Trying to look cool
- Grandma didn’t want to miss us
- Please take our photo
- Local transport
- Local house
- Note the tiny windows
- Vegetable garden
- Grinding tumeric
- Looking after the hens
- and the chicks
- Cats always have the place by the fire
- Gambling game played at festival time
- Gambling game played at festival time
- Photogenic
- Basketwork
- Beneath the drying corn
For this and other similar tours see:
Explore Asia with Intrepid Travel (a range of different travel styles – see my post on travel styles)
Peregrine Adventures (Comfort tours)
Geckos Adventures (for 18 to 30s)
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