Weekend Itinerary
Friday
530 - wake up
600 to 630 - walk through thamel to get to the buses (with the group going to Chitwan)
630 - find buses along with tons of people trying to sell pop and treats
700 - bus begins trip to Chitwan
... stops along the way to pick up random people; guy controls the door to try and find people who need the bus to Chitwan...
sometime in the bus ride - driver takes a crazy steep hill down to a beach; drops people off, and has to go up the same insane slope; then since facing the wrong way when back on the highway, bus driver decides to turn the BUS around on the smallest road ever; it was done and a micracle for surprising that we didn't get stuck perpendicular to the road
200 - arrive at Chitwan; beautiful!!!
230 - eat lunch
300 - go on a walk around the village, see the elephants; walk through the jungle (our guide, Seoul, was like a Nepali - Scottish dude)
600? - supper
730 - cultural dance; amazing!; the did it with these sticks and it was crazy impressive; the people that live in Chitwan are known as the Thuaru people
sleep...
Saturday
530 - wake up
600 - breakfast
630 - canoe ride down the river; see three crocos, one at which attacked the canoe next to us (well not bad but did come out of the water and snapped a bit; and yes it was a man - eating one); see another veggie ally on the beach; our guide canoes our boat OVER a 3M long man-eating croco :S; reverses to try and find it again
... continue on through a walk through the jungle; before the walk, told to be quiet and if we come face to face with a rhino, run and climp a tree...hmmmmm....
- see three lemur monkeys
- tons of red bugs
- have the best walk through the jungle ever
... get back to the village; go change so can swim with the elephants...
- go into the river and clmb onto a elephant; get really, REALLY wet; it drops us back into the river; and repeat
- so crazyly awesome
100? - lunch
130 - go into the village and do some shopping; not feeling great so go back to sleep
300 - getting woken up by Sam saying, theres a rhino outside!!!; best wake up ever
330 - go for elephant safari; get on 4 to an elephant and since there 7 of us, we are split up
... have the most peaceful ride through the jungle; see more rhino's, lots of deer; tons of elephants carrying people getting split up a bit
- feeling absolutely content in life and at peace; hear an elephant scream and then some growling; our guide turns the elephant around; Sam asks if that was a tiger and he laughs nerviously then says yes; feeling of contentment in life to pure panic
(nothing happenings, in fact wasn't a tiger)
- continues through the jungle; more details upon discussion...
730 - supper
800 - random convo with Seoul
900 - bedtime
Sunday
530 - wakeup
600 - walk through jungle again
... bird watching; see retired elephant bathe in river; saw another rhine in the river...
730 - breakfast
930 - depart to go back to Kathmandu
... more beautiful landscape ever!!!; stop for a break at a town, I get locked in the bus, but my friends bring me ice cream
- leave town; about 15 minutes of driving, run into a huge, HUGE line up a cars; hear rumor that the Maoists have put on another strike and don't be able to get to Kathmandu until the next day; sit at the side of the road for at least an hour and then the line starts moving again...
630 - get to Kathmandu; go for awesome pizza and pop
900 - get back to the house; find out it wasn't a strike, but a bad car accident
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Overall, most amazing, unforgettable weekend.
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