Chitwan National Park

Our drive that afternoon, to Chitwan National Park is thankfully on much straighter, roads. Now that we are out of the mountains and driving from West to East, closer to India, there are no drop offs to contend with. This however, seems to encourage Binud to drive even faster and Read more…

Lumbini

Lumbini is much closer to the Indian Border and therefore about another ten degrees hotter. It is also suffering, like all of Nepal, from a limited power supply. At best, the power comes on in the evening to operate fans and air conditioning. Here in Lumbini, it is smotheringly hot Read more…

Bandipur

Shanti and Tashi have organised for us to hire a car and driver (potentially safer than taking the bus and probably as economic for five of us) around Nepal for the time that we are here. The next day we set off to Bandipur, a little village in the hills Read more…

Kathmandu

Nepal The streets of Kathmandu seem almost deserted when we drive out of the airport at 11.30pm. It is raining and about 25 degrees cooler than it was in Varanasi. We have booked to stay at the Life Story Guest-house in Patan, once an independent city state but now more Read more…