Batons for the Beasts? A Nepalese Safari in Chitwan National Park (Part One)

The ride to Chitwan from Kathmandu, only eighty kilometres (fifty miles), took five and a half hours along almost-impassable roads, mainly used by slow-moving fuel tankers. At the risk of sounding controversial, the sooner the Chinese build some more railways in Nepal���������and maybe some pipelines too���������the better. The current plan is to build a railway across the Himalayas from Lhasa to Kathmandu.