Destination: Nepal

Gallery: Annapurna Circuit 2

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 | By cind-n-walt | Photo Gallery

Tues 4th Nov - KTM

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [512]

Lunch at the Roadside Cafe, cool and elegant with rattan blinds and Lavazza coffee. Humus and crudites. Just got back from Baluwater travel agency. No way to Tibet from Nepal as getting a visa is like getting one from iran, only worse. China to Nepal ... Read more >

Tags: fergus, stupa

Gallery: KTM

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 | By pecosbiff | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Long trip to Kathmandu

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 | By pecosbiff | Photo Gallery

Sun 2nd - Mon 3rd November - Katmandu

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 | By pecosbiff | Views [692]

8 hours to Kathmandu on local bus, on the back seat with little cushioning and crammed and bumpy. Nice Aussie gave me his front seat next to Ruth halfway. Hot, hot, hot. No more buses for me - I am Train Woman. Check into the Hilton Hotel - no, really.... Read more >

Tags: hot

Gallery: Trekking - Vallee de Kathmandu

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 | By bixente | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Nepal Everest Base Camp Trek 2008

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 | By whereis_kate | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Nepal Everest Base Camp 2006

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 | By whereis_kate | Photo Gallery

Balancing on The Shoulders of Giants (2008)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 | By whereis_kate | Views [895]

If Francys could stay alive she would be famous. She squeezed Serguei’s hand. Her husband squeezed back, letting her know he could feel her there. They could see the curvature of the Earth, the first husband and wife ever to do so. The thin air bit ... Read more >

Tags: base camp, climbing, everest, mountains, nepal, travel, trekking

circuit since pokhara

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 | By cind-n-walt | Views [564] | Comments [1]

AS the internet service and enlectridity are as fickle as the wind this may be short and will certainly be interesting typing.  I will not correct-so sorry to the sensitive reader.  WE left Pokhara in a 4 wheel drive vehicle with a necsceptional driver ... Read more >

Varanasi & Agra- India

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 | By evaamy | Views [877] | Comments [6]

The journey from Nepal to India was an adventure in it self, left Kathamandu on 20 October 2008 on an 8 hour bus journey to Sounali, the boarders of Nepal and Kathmandu. We only been on the road for less than an hour and the petrol tank fell off, so ... Read more >

Gallery: Nepal

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 | By evaamy | Photo Gallery

Nepal October 2008

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 | By evaamy | Views [649] | Comments [3]

Finally I got organised to start writing this journal. I got back to Kathmandu this afternoon after an amazing trekking trip in the Anapurna Santurary. I can't believe I only been away 2 weeks, there is so much I have exerienced since I left London. ... Read more >

Tags: trekking

pilgrimage of poem & music; day 1 in the Dolpa: dilation

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 | By solbeam | Views [2521]

We wake and jostle our belongings together in haste; today, as we have long planned, we will begin our journey into the Dolpa. Sacks stuffed, teeth brushed, packs on back, we descend the steep incline of wooden stairs and emerge on the lower deck ... Read more >

Annapurna circuit

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 | By cind-n-walt | Views [480] | Comments [1]

Off tomorrow for the start of the trek.  We have acquired a guide for the first few days as it is off of the beated path.  The mornings remain clear, the afternoon brings huge cumulous clouds and I suspect rain.  We just picked up some rain covers for ... Read more >