I cant remember what part of the day the above quote was said but rounds the day up reasonably well :)
Bye Bye Chitwan you will be missed with all your elephants and Rhinos.
We got on bus for a Bhairwaha (i really have no idea how to spell it). The family that had shared our jeep to the elephants were on it as well, they were locals but spoke very good English especially the little girl. The journey was very hot and felt like it lasted forever, we seemed to stop for a ridiculous amount of time in each location. Once we got to Bhairwaha we were the only Europeans left on the bus, and the last to get off. WHAM as soon as we stepped off the bus every man and his dog had rushed to us, "Do you want to go to Lumbini"..."stay in my Hotel blah blah blahh"...."You want rickshaw?". Me and Giselle grabbed our bags from the man on the top of the bus refusing any help, while shouting no at them all. I would like to of had a birds eye view video of it, as we moved away they all and i mean all followed us !They weren't normally this persistent. The dad of the family we had been with came over to help us and directed us in the way of the market. (thank you). But it was too late my angry voice came out and i shout "NO! WE DON'T WANT A RICKSHAW TO YOUR HOTEL!" I must of been at least a little scary as most of them left us alone (not all though). We walked most the way but then couldn't work out our little map and eventually got a rickshaw (but with a man who wasn't yelling at us).
Checked into a hotel, we seemed to be the only people staying there but we did manage to knocked 50rs of a night (ooooh yeaaa). We got to our room, YAY full length mirror. The toilet was however just a whole in the ground (that was our first experience of such things and our last so far) the toilet did have a flush though. Giselle went to go try it out. It was fine until i heard Giselle do a little scream, naturally i just assumed she had had problems squatting and had just weed on herself. "Alicia !! oh no wait i don't have my trousers on !" I now tried to think of another reason she may of just screamed, I couldn't....... "The taps come off !" after she had managed to put her trousers on i went in, she had managed to put the tap partly back on but there was a lot of water squirting every where. This was one of those catch 22 moments, do we go tell the hotel owners and risk them wanting to pay them some money for damage or try and fix it our selves. Well, naturally we chose to try and fix it ourselves. My thoughts were "Let's just try and gaffer tape it on"..."don't you think we should tell them"......"No, you pulled there tap off they might want us to pay some money". This was all discussed while holding the tap to the wall. Giselle got the gaffer tape and we tried to fix it. It didn't work. Then came the removing of the tape. "Ahhhh" The whole tap came off again and water went every where ! We eventually called the hotel man up, and we felt immensely bad as he also got soaked, the only difference being was we were in rubbish clothes and he was in a suite. He apologized and moved us to another room, that he said was the same but i didnt think was as nice, the tap didn't brake though :)
Bhairawha is nearly as bad as Dumre and they don't sell toilet roll any where !! (we found some packets of tissues eventually)
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