Tour to Chitlang

Date: 31^st January & 1^st February

Total time: 1 night 2 days

Participants: Dipendra Nepal, Sarika Shrestha, Prabesh Bardewa, Yashoda Khadka, Ashish Pokhrel, Dinesh Poudel, Prajwal Badal, Salil K.C., Rabin Kaduwal, Alisha Tamang, Roman Mahat, Yashoda Ghimire, Rupesh Kafle, Dipendra Basnet, Jyoti Thami, Shristy Karki, Meghana Rai, Sachita Buddhathoki, Srija Adhikari, Cosmic Koirala, Aditya Bhujel, Alen K.C., Amrit Koirala, Adip Thapa, Karma Tshering Sherpa, Pradeep Magar, Krishna Govaju, Bipal Kattel, Sabin Shrestha, Sabin Paudel and Sujan Gurung

Teachers: Murari sir, Deepak sir and Samuel sir

“Travelling broadens our mind.” So, we must travel different places as it gives us knowledge and information about different things which we have never seen or will never see again throughout our life. Apart from this, it also helps in refreshment, enjoyment, and entertainment. Nowadays every school take their students for visiting different places so that students can learn different things. School administration knows its importance as only learning things from our textbooks and note copies makes our mind dull and monotonous. So a short but unforgettable event call ‘Educational Tour’ is held by schools.

Before a couple of weeks, we, grade 9 students went on educational tour to Chitlang. Chitlang is a small village lies in Makwanpur district of Narayani zone. We visited many religious and historical places over there. So, this is a short description of what I experienced from this tour which of course will please you if you have a squint on it.

Day 1:

Gathering at School

                The tour began with full excitement and enthusiasm. We were wild to start our journey.  We were called in the school at exactly 9 A.M. but some of our friends didn’t arrive by time so we kept on waiting. This moment of patience as making us feel bored and anxious at the beginning but we kept ourselves busy by involving in photography.

Heading towards Chitlang

                Finally our waiting was valued and everyone arrived. We immediately grabbed our bags and left for our destination. We headed towards our school bus which took us up to Thankot and dropped us there. Then we started to walk to reach Chitlang. On the way to our destination, we observed beautiful scenarios including natural herbs and trees which was heartrending.

View of Chandragiri

                After about a couple of hours we reached the top of “Chandragiri” which was the place where our late king Prithivi Narayan Shah had observed the beauty of Kathmandu valley and decided to capture it. Our vice principal, in fact our guide, Murari sir told us many things about this place of beauty. Then we continued our walk to our fascinating destination.

At Chitlang

                After a long walk of about 6 hours, which felt to be passed within a blink of an eye, we reached our destination. The place was filled with natural beauty. As soon as we reached Chitlang, we ran and jumped with joy and excitement. We were very tired and hungry by this time. So we took our lunch. We were taken to stay in a resort cum homestay by our teachers where we took rest in our allocated rooms. After about an hour we were fresh and later all of us met in front of the stay.

Shivalaya with 3 pinnacles

                Next we hired a local guide and then we headed to visit a religious temple, “Sivalaya with 3 pinnacles”. Our teachers as well as the local people explained about the history of the place along with the vegetation, environment, and climate of the place which was quite interesting. All of us then prayed in the temple and became busy in taking photographs for the memory of this masterpiece.

Yummy Cheese ^_^

            After visiting the temple we headed towards the water mill. We observed the process of converting maize into flour. We were informed that the flour which comes out from maize is more nutritious than anything else. Then through the guidance of our teachers and guide we walked towards “The Nepalese Goat Cheese Industry”. All of us then had yummy piece of freshly prepared cheese.

Campfire

                We also visited the factory and closely perceived the method of preparing cheese. Then we went to “Shree Swochanda Bhairab Madhyamik Vidyalaya”, which was the only school in Chitlang. After that we came back to our stay. When it was dark outside, we enjoyed campfire. Then we had our dinner and went to our room to take rest and sleep. We had chat for about an hour and then went to sleep.

Day 2:

Recalling the previous day

                We were quite excited about our 2^nd day as we were heading towards the Nepal’s largest grazing field, Markhu and Indrasarowar(largest artificial lake). We then headed to the resort and took some photographs of the chilly morning. After that our teachers made us write some information about the place. We gathered a lot of information and were very happy.

Saat Dhara 

                Then we had our breakfast and planned to leave the resort. Then we visited “Saat Dhara Temple”. It was situated at the middle of a forest which was really amazing. We snapped some pictures and then headed towards Nepal’s largest grazing. On the way was a Chaitya which was built by a great emperor, Ashoka. We collected some information and then moved towards the field.

Largest grazing field

                We walked through the forest where cold breeze was blowing. After a long walk we reached our destination which was really very large. After that we went to Marku and had lunch. Then we visited Indrasarowar and enjoyed boating.

                Next we went to Kulekhani from a tourist bus. The view of Kulekhani Dam was dazzling and breathe taking. Murari sir gave us information about the construction of dam, its depth and so on.  Then we returned back to our school with sadness for the end of our tour.

Talking about the places

Chitlang:

                Chitlang lies about 30 km west from Kathmandu valley. It is situated in Makwanpur district of Narayani zone. Its old name is Chitrapur and was later changed to Chitlang. It is one of the best tourist attraction areas. Different types of people like Newar, Chhetri, Tamang, etc. live here. People are very kind and hardworking and respect other people and tourists. The land here is very fertile and people mainly grow maize, barley, peer, and so on. The climate is moderate and it consists of coniferous and deciduous forest. It has religious importance as it includes religious spots like 3 pinnacles Sivalya, 7 dhara with temple and so on. Some other places to visit are “Majha gaun(a village of Newar community)”, “Swochanda Bhairab temple”, and so on.

Indrasarowar

Markhu

Markhu is a village development committee in Makwanpur district which is widely known for the largest artificial lake Indrasarowar and the boating experience in this lake.

Kulekhani

Kulekhani is a village development committee in Makwanpur District of Narayani zone which is famous for the Kulekhani hydropower-1, which is the only reservoir type of hydroelectric power station in Nepal whose installed capacity is 60 megawatt.

My Expression

                The tour to Chitlang was really memorable and unforgettable for me. I have collected a lot of sweet and fun moments which can never be regained again. I was really impressed by the natural beauty and originality of the place. I was totally amazed to have such comfort and heart catching beauty.

9 stars of 9

                I really had best times with my friends and teacher which will always be placed in one of the corners of my heart throughout my life. This tour also enriched our heart with beauty and glamour of the beauty of the place. This tour has cherished my heart with joy and happiness.

             Lastly, I would like to thank my school administration for all those enchanting and blissing moments which will never come back to my life ever again.