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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Royal Chitwan National Park


Part 1Each small image is linked to a larger, higher resolution photo. Date links are to journal entries.

Truck on the Road to Chitwan
The bus ride to Chitwan can be hair-raising, as vehicles speed down the narrow winding road, often passing on blind curves, all under protection of the ubiquitous light-up gods on the front of the thoroughly-decorated trucks. (12/1/94)

Tharu village well
A well in the Tharu Village in Sauraha, near the Royal Chitwan National Park headquarters in the Terai region of Nepal. (12/1/94)

Tharu village houses
Houses in a Tharu village near Sauraha. This picture was taken from an elephant's back. (12/2/94)

Sauraha mustard fields
Sauraha was surrounded by enormous fields of bright yellow mustard. (12/2/94)

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