Nov
08
2008
It was a wonderful experience of hiking from in Shivapuri National Park. A six hours of continuous walk was quite exciting. The hiking program was organized by CodeArts as a refreshment program. We started our journey from Sundarijal at about 10 AM and we finally completed our journey at about 4.30 PM.
We encountered an unexpected event during this hiking. One of the members of CodeArts had bought movie camera and when we were preparing to initialize our core journey from entering gate of Shivapuri National park we were told a movie camera capable of capturing still photo shots would cost us NRs. 3000.00. It was quite ridiculous rule in the sense that nowadays most of the people have a movie camera embedded in a digital still camera or a multimedia mobile handset. The folks at the gate warn us that if we went without paying fee for movie camera and if the guards or military personnel inside the park check us then the movie camera could be seized. Since we were coming from one gate (Sundarijal side) and passing through another gate (Narayanthan) so, it was not feasible and assuring to give the folks at the gate our asset. So our CEO (Mr. Brijendra Joshi) called some known guys (suitable to say doctors) from Nepal Medical College and movie camera was returned to them. It took our 2 hours of our precious time and we formally started out core hiking journey at about 10.45 AM. A real mess due to some shit rules.
After completing the hiking in the national park we did not see any authorized personnel checking anything. So, at last we found that returning the movie camera was just the waste of time.
But don’t worry we did break the rules (of course pathetic ones) by capturing movies from our mobile and digital camera :).
Google Maps Link is here.
Some snapshots of the trip:
One can view the photo album here.
Conclusion: A hiking full of fun; will never forget it indeed.