Jakey Jake

Wednesday 30th March
After waking up well before the wake up call we eventually headed down to the bus stop to catch a local bus to chitwan national park. The journey took us through some massive mountain ranges with some incredible scenery and some incredible drops off the side of the road. I wasnt sure if the bus driver had previously missed his vocation as an airline pilot, it seemed he wanted to drive us straight off the cliffs. it was very f*&$ing scary. Somehow we managed to make it safely to chitwan although it took about 3 hours longer than our tourgide had said. The reoad had been closed for the last few days due to heavy fighting, and funnily enough there was an article in the paper talking about maoists torching a tourist bus. we hooked up with another group when we arrived, some of their group was to be joining our group for the tour through india. We all decided to have a few drinks down along the river, which had a lot of seating on the banks, giving it a real beach feel. We all got along pretty well and had a good laugh until our leader came down and said we should get back to the hotel as the army was coming though.