Janakpur
Trip Start
Sep 28, 2005
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Trip End
Dec 24, 2007
Janakpur,
Nepal
Thursday, August 24, 2006
We left Bhaktapur at 12 knowing there would probably be a night bus from Kathmandu to Janakpur. We walked to the bus stop with our heavy, heavy bags and the bus left imediatly or the centre o Kathmandu. We would have got a taxi like we did on the way but we are not in a rush and it works out a lot cheaper this way. From The centre of Kathmandu 1 hour later we got a taxi to the bs station 5km away. A local kindly helped us get a good price.
From the bus station i eventually managed to get a semi reaonable price or some ticket to Janakpur but it was not withour conciderable effort. We have 5 hours to wait around at the bus stop though. The past 3 hours have been spent eating Samosas and sipping Chai and then we walked a little to this internet cafe to eat up some of the time
encaged holy monkey
. It is now 4.30 so we only have half an hour before we have to get moving. It is an 11 hour overnight bus to Janakpur.Once in Janakpur we gota cycle rikshaw to a place which Polina said was the 'worst room she had ever seen', so she went loking and found a nicer one. Janakpur itself is not that nice so we have decided only to spend the one day here. We got to the room and sleped as i slept for only 30 mins. I set my alarm for11 and then we went to the bus statiuon to arange a bus for tomorrow to the boarder.
After succesfully arranging the bus we were going to go and see a Monkey temple (where a large 65kg monkey is ment to be caged up) but we both had stomach pains-they were bad so we went back. Later on in the day we were looking for the monkey temple but no one had a clue what we were going on about. It turned out the monkey died from gross over feeding so we saw a couple of temples and then got an early night.
Tomorrow we get a 7 hour bus to the boarder and then hopefully a jeep to Darjeeling.
