Chitwan’s soil carries materially the memory of all the past and present projects of placemaking that have occurred there. Human activities have swapped one habitat for another and one way of living for another, marking the land in the process with stories of settling and uprooting, domesticating and wilding, founding and ruining. Soil, like all infrastructures, does the invisible work of ensuring a reliable and common base for relationships to flourish across the unpredictable forces of time and space. Today, other infrastructures rise above the soil turning Chitwan away from its local environment and into yet another dissociated node of extraction in the global movements of labour and capital.