We travel overland and say goodbye to India and hello to Nepal, the landscape changes from the flat plains of India as we climb towards the more hilly terrain of Nepal and the himalayas. Just as I ( mike ) thought I had escaped India without any stomach problems I am hit by Delhi belly the morning of departure, luckily it only lasts 24 hours and all is well the morning after on our 1st day in Nepal. Hence I took a break and missed breakfast while the est of the grouptook a cycle rickshaw ride to some local temple inc the birth place of Buddha.I sat outside our room on the verandah and watched the colourful tapestry of local life unfolding before me. 30 mins ater and Yoran our dutch friends in the group arives back before the rest of the group limping badly fom a 10cm gash in his leg, apparently he was helping the rickshaw driver push the cyle uphill and a nail sticking out from the wheel hub went straight into his leg. A hospital visit was required, so we all piled into our mini bus for the next leg of our journey via the local hospital !!!Would you believe straight into the casualty ward at the border hospital in Bhairawa and he is seen, operated on and back out within 2 hours, with 12 stitches ... we travel towards our next destination Chitwan national park for the opportunity to see some of asias amazing wildlife. Accompanied by a local guide we spend a day treking the jungle pathway in anticipation of seeing man eating tigers, elephants, rhinos, crocodiles, monkeys and a mixture of other wildlife. We stopped halfway into the trek for picnic, alas today we only saw plenty of Tiger, rhino and elephant poo !!!! Our illustrated guidebook ' The animal poo of Nepal will be published in 2006 if anyone wants a signed copy please add your name to the list. Luckily we did see plenty of crocodiles along the riverbank and monkies and birds and a fabulous mix of butterflys. After a night sleeping on the outskirts of the jungle in a small local family guesthouse with outside loo and shower we trekback through the undergrowth to our hotel.
Friday 25th November. We journey north towards Kathmandu the capital of Nepaland our final day together with our group before we all go our separate ways - celebration time with an evening visit to a restaurant in the centre of Kathmandu a few street away from our modest hotel, we all exchange email addresses and say our farewells. Yorans leg is healing nicely and he is able to limp along and join us. If any of you guys read this we wish you all a happy and safe forward journey, and thank you for 2 weeks of outsatnding comeraderie and entertainment.
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