Today Shovan was telling me about his school “excursion” to the Chitwan National Park south of Kathmandu. I tried to envision the scene as his bus tumbled into the Terai jungle on the patchy provincial road. He says the Chitwan is famous as an Asian safari, and the word “safari” sent my mind off to a tangent on the Serengeti Plains in Easten Africa. “You mean like tigers and elephants?” I was way off. Shovan sternly set me straight that tigers are only in Asia, so Africa only has lions. I guess I haven’t watched “The Lion King” and “The Jungle Book” enough times to figure that out. I was also way off imagining the landscape. The Serengeti is a little sparse and arid, with a few desiccated shrubs here and there. A safari in Nepal is completely different, with dense jungles, running rivers, and perils shrouded on all sides.