Chapagaun to Saraswoti Kunda
Date: May 18, 2008
Participants: Prajwal Hada, Sanjeet Baidya, Lava Kafle, Awanish Rajan, Samesh Joshi, Bikram Lal, Binod Raj Pathak, Ravi Sharma, Sashi Acharya, Subin Shrestha, Bikesh Babu Rajbanshi
Hiking Route: Chapagaun-PIA-Lele-Thapagaun-Lele- Saraswoti Kunda
Total Distance covered: 10 kms (approx)
Duration: 4 hours
Report By: BinodP
Caption: AwanishR/RaviS
Photos: Shashi/Shamesh/Awanish/Ravi
Hiking Description:-
It was almost 7:00 am of Sunday morning when all the hikers had arrived to Office. Previously, hike was planned from Budhanikantha to Shivapuri, but due to zero participation of lady hikers, we planned to do a bit tough hiking and chose the route of Chapagaun to Lele. At 7:10 am our office van picked us from office premises towards the hiking start point. As every hiker’s stomach was empty, we stopped at Jawalakhel and find hotel named “Badri ko Khaja Pasal”. After stomach was fully loaded, we again started our journey. After half and hour journey via Office van we reached to Chapagaun, the starting point of our hike. We took jungle way. There was no proper path that we can follow in jungle so we randomly moved discovering our own way. Though jungle way was very steep and difficult to climb up hills, we never lost our serenity. We were so lucky to taste delicious fruit in jungle i.e. “kafal”. Thanks to Binod and Awanish who managed themselves to climb “Kafal” tree and pick “kafal” for all. While we were having “Kafal”, “Kafle Lava” dai frightened every one saying “What will we do if Tiger comes here”. Everyone gave their views but Lava dai gave the most promising view. According to him, four of us will catch four legs of tiger, other two will catch its body, other two will catch its tail and remaining will pour alcohol i.e. beer in its mouth. After having beer, tiger will become “Jhaap” then we will take photo embracing it. Romantic talk was over; we began to climb up and up. We were lucky that weather was on our favor, atmosphere was cloudy so we didn’t feel too hot. After climbing hill for 45 minutes, we reached almost top. We did not find proper way to reach Lele. We used Hit and Trial method to find way to Lele. We decided to climb down the steep hill. The forest is of pine and ground is covered with its leaves which caused difficult to move down the steep path. We began to skate down. Almost all hikers fell once while skating down. Bikesh won first prize for falling down many times. Congratulation!!! Bikesh. After almost one hour skating practice we finally reached the main road. Later on we came to know that the name of area from where we began to skate is PIA. Environment of PIA is cool and naturally rich. From PIA we reached Lele village. As usual, we searched local school to distribute copy and pencil to students. Finally we found school named ‘Shree Maneshwori Primary School”. We distributed all copies and pencils to little students of that school and took some photos with them. There after we walked towards Thapagaun a nice village. People were busy in harvesting wheat from their fields. Moving through wheat field we reached to a lake with clean water. We washed our hands and feet there and took rest for a while. Still we had a lot of time so we decided to climb other hill of Lele. After another 45 minutes of walk through hill, we reached Lele Bazzar. Moving up through Lele Bazzar we reached Saraswoti Kunda our end point of hike.
Everywhere we searched for a good hotel to have lunch. We were unable to find any suitable place. Finally we met Parwati didi who helped us finding the right hotel for our lunch. Ravi enjoyed talking with the 65 years old woman. She was having some food with us as well. After having lunch we were headed back to Kathmandu. It was really funny and humorous hike.
01-3 Pals ready to take on lele
02-excitement of Hiking
03-Heading toward Badri ko Khaja Pasal
04-Fuel Crisis
05-lets move guys
06-Someone might be watching us say hi to them
07-Start the hike
08-A Glimpse of Lalitpur district
09-Engineering skills of the machine
10-Lets take rest
11-We are the champions
12-two monkeys hunting for kaafal
13-The D2C
14-Destination not so far
15-lava dai- making plan how to protect from wilds in the jungle
16-Bikram’s D
17-it was really cool weather
18-kasto hidna garo bha yespali
19-Help!Help! Please someone help me
20-Ohhhh my God … ke vayo !!! come ongive some air to him
21-break time lets have some local cheeeezzzz
22-Big bite1
23-Big bite2
24-Big bite3
25-elephant bite
26-Ek se mera kya hoga
27-Is this enough for me
28-this much is enuff for my stomach
29-sanjeet dai- We must reach that hil, lava dai- no we have walked a long lets make it short
30-ohh noo how can i walk such a long distance
31-prajwal dai- come on lava ji we must go now
32-can someone lend me a bottle of waterplease
33-Bikesh n Shamesh on the way
34-Crawling down towards Bhairab Kunda
35-Follow meehh
36-Getting ready to slide
37-Finally ravi stopped sliding bikesh
38-Lost in the nature
39-Enjoying the jungle slide
40-Slide-1
41-Ready to take off
42-Slide -2
43-Simply beautiful
44-Hariyo baan Nepal ko dhan
45-lets walk school..
46-Finally we found it
47-I got 2 pencils how much did u get
48-Thank you sir..audai garnu hola
49-Prajwal dai distributing copy n pencil to the principal of the school
50-Everybody say D2
51-two beautiful kids of lele
52-Photography at its best
53-Photography skills
54-Hey kasaile ta hamro photo khicha na yaar
55-Lets move on
56-Macro test
57-let them enjoy
58-Lava ji! Khola le bagaula hai
59-paile timi afnu jutta khola ani matrai ma mero arko jutta kholchhu
60-Resting brigde
61
62-What are these guys looking at
63-Our only food in the jungle
64-Mushroom
65-Mero photo chahi bullet aunu parchha hai
66-Three glass of dew
67-binod… i love hiking.. hiking is in my blood
68-Gahu ko bhari
69-Divine eyes of SAS NEPAL
70-Tiger Cheez time
71-It was such a nice place
72–Old house1
73-Old house2
74-Jooka just caught
75-Now no one lives there
76-Hills
77-Etta Bhatta
78-on the way to sarswati kunda
79-size of all three windows are same with the small door below
80-Shiva Temple our destination finally
81-Shiva Mandir
82-Happy Awanish after a long walk
83-eye catching fish of saraswati kunda
84-Parbati didi, who led us to the hotel
85-Finally all the guys love the same topic no age difference
86-Any wish before execution
87-Awareness board of LELE
88-dusty road of chapagaun
89-everybody enjoyed the hike
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May 21st, 2008 at 5:58 am
so bad pics not being seen. EverestUncensored site going down due to this hiking trip photographs.
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May 21st, 2008 at 6:52 am
lets hope all the pics come up .. there might be some technical problem with EU.
“EverestUncensored site going down due to this hiking trip photographs” - comment sounds a bit lacking technical knowledge.
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May 21st, 2008 at 6:57 am
Lets see : optimistic is right. Please do not blame our photographs, but learn from the texts
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:00 am
What is this No pics?? Slide garda garda picture nai slide bhayo jasto cha .. k ho EU??
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:02 am
damn Optimistic. If picture is not loaded due to your huge hiking photo sizes, why the sobad should be non technical? Keep up quality else do not post your photoless titles here
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:07 am
I agree with What is this. damn EU just makes me lose my expensive bandwidth and damn to Optimistic. 0 knowledge about Social Blogs. If hi5 or facebook or jhhosk or openfriendfinder or lovelife reach this situation once, they will be kicked off from huge user masses like EU. Anyway I use Worldlink and mercantile both cable connections but still this site makes me pay more. I would love to see this nepali site browsable from my I-Phone too that I recently procured from US through a friend of mine.
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:10 am
its a super lie in this hiking trip. Lele has No Sraswati Temple at all.
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
oh negative agressive unpolite rude boy/girl! I myself saw it with my own spectacled eyes. It is beside the Large temple that guys posed in pics above. If you want I can take you through the same route again.
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:17 am
Guys you ppl are right. Kafal tree which bears the fruit was the one that kept our pre-ancestors alive and they stayed under the tree for thousands of years, so our Surname bears “kafle” in honor of those trees that gave shade and shelter to our fore-forefathers.
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:19 am
hey it’s Shiva’s Temple not Saraswati Temple, Actually there is small pond full of fishes, and locals called it ’saraswoti kunda’
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:48 am
ALL Pics are up and ready for comment as per optimistic
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May 21st, 2008 at 8:07 am
Great.. Admin even changed the confused caption
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May 21st, 2008 at 8:10 am
Charming, pretty, lots more…. that i can’t define in single words.gr8 photography
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May 21st, 2008 at 8:15 am
Alright, keep it up. fotografer has also done great job catching daami shots. ek choti jityo, dui choti jityo aba third time pani jityo bhane chaahi prashant&co lai mannai parchha.
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May 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
pawankShrestha is right. If Prashant wins third game, it will be a super victory hattrick. lets see if the third team is equally resistive. Meanwhile thanks Shamesh for verifying those comments and Youth_Of_the_nation for those superb fixes verification includinjg confused caption changes by Admin. Admin, thanks for spending time to cover errors and ommisions. Still pic 61 does not have caption or is it best or silly photograph without any theme.
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:22 pm
One of the greatest experience thru this trip….thanx to all the team and subin dai for taking us thru the sliding way…ani sanjeet dai…slide garda jhandai someone smart le something damage gareko hai…:mrgreen:
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
can u browse the page once again?, i agree with what optimistic wrote above.
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
pic 61 has no caption bcoz it is meant for the fellow bloggers to provide an appropriate theme for that!!!
lets see who’s theme counts the best one
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May 21st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
चिप्लिन रमाइलो भएको थियो॰॰॰
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May 21st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Great Hiking!!! Missed a lot………………..
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May 21st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
I see mostly only people images, why not scenery more? If you guys want to just add your images then why to post in public place?s
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May 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I really missed the beautiful sceneries….. mostly the “Gahu ko bari” & the “Khola”. The photography of pic.66“Three glass of dew” is really nice. It seems like three antique beautiful aquariums.Well done guys…
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May 21st, 2008 at 11:31 pm
actually sliding down inside the jungle was a tough one, if u lose ur concentration then ur gone.
. now no need to slide anymore ur body will slide itself. We managed to take photograph in such a difficult situation as well.
why people images? well its a blog we like to add our images so we have posted mostly people images here , to let others know the real story and it can’t be explained by scenery, it needs to be explained by peoples action ..to let others know what really made the hike so fun..
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May 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 am
Really, human images should be only 10% else it is not hiking but human modeling. No need to show your body and thighs wearing half pants. We are used to these.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 5:10 am
Are females working in D2 Hawkeye so fragile that they cannot climb up the hills and slide down like males?
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May 22nd, 2008 at 5:15 am
Take chocolates,that will give more energy rather than those U & Me chips…
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May 22nd, 2008 at 5:22 am
we had lots of cheez which gives more energy than chocolates see the pic above
U n me is like a desert
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May 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 am
Thanks Mr
to work as a reminder 
. Actually, u will know in next hike how courageous D2’s females are?? 
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May 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am
Pic 66 - Why there is so few bubbles in the midle glass?
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May 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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May 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 am
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May 23rd, 2008 at 2:44 am
we d2 girls are too bg on sunday with our personal tasks chores at home. cannot join you guys
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May 23rd, 2008 at 3:00 am
antimobile — don’t worry we’ve already had some of d2 girls joining us this sunday you just seat back and wait until the pics come out in EU..
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