Driven to Chitwan with parents, rice thali at Muglin bazaar, yummy food always, Sauraha, Hotel Jal-kapur, abandoned place, different restaurant, Sungava retreat and work, back home in the evening, comically wretched stay in Chitwan [Tue 4]

This is a part of 'going back and re-filling unwritten journals' project, the real writing is happening 8ish months after the date as a part of 'project 100'.

We headed out for Chitwan early in the morning, around 7ish. Stopped at Muglin bajaar for lunch, thakali meal full on, it was super good, I remember their sitting and restrooms so distinctly well all these months later it's a bit surprising.

After unloading our belongings at the room there, we went to Sauraha. The first destination was hotel Jal-kapur, which on the plus side had a swimming pool where a couple of guys were swimming. On the downside, the restaurant was next to the more 'still water' part of the river, so there wasn't much to see, the food was just alright. Which is why we drove to a different restaurant, the Sungava.

Sungava restaurant was much better, pretty decent food, despite limited options. The service was just okay, since the server must have been new as he made like ten mistakes over the course of a couple of hours. I took a team meeting from the restaurant and did some work. Lots of earthwork happening to protect the resort from the river, so a little bit of disruption, but besides that it was pretty relaxing.

Drove home in the evening, back to my comically wretched room, I must send that photo to all friends and family who will bother be for having a place in Chitwan because that could have been a place from a peasant's home 2000 years ago. So. Very. Wretched. A store room, a coop and a bedroom all in the same place!

Sleep wasn't specially hard to come by, despite the heat and everything, surprisingly!