After experiencing the lively Holi festival of color in the otherwise sleepy town that is the Buddha's birthplace, we signed on with our hotelier 'Jupiter' for the only package tour of our entire trip - a couple of days and nights at Southern Nepal's beautiful Chitwan National Park. We left Lumbini early in the morning on a loud, smelly, rickety old bus (no trains here in Nepal). The bus stopped every 5 minutes or so, and soon filled up to sardine capacity. We careened through the foggy, bumpy roads of the countryside until we eventually arrived, grateful to be in one slightly squished piece, to meet our tour contact near Chitwan. From there the experience improved considerably. We were driven by jeep to the to the Jungle Wildlife Camp, which was a fantastic resort on the
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