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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | By globalld | Photo Gallery
Photos of Bodhnath area
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 | By globalld | Views [1219] | Comments [1]
Why is it that everyone thinks I’m 26? Do I act so young, talk so young, have a young gait? Or is it just my “good genes”, my diligent facial routine and my positive attitude? It is a complex topic.!
Ah, I have finally arrived in Nepal! I am staying ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [848] | Comments [1]
We arrived in Katmandu the very day before Maoists entered officially the government of Nepal. Maoists arer revolution people. They would like to get rid of Nepal’s king, and let Nepal become a communist republic, as the dictator ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 16 Dec 2006 | By BigTripBlog | Views [2273]
The only major activity planned for the Big
Trip was trekking in Nepal. When we arrived in Kathmandu we were
immediately approached by someone offering treks, and against all of
our normal traveling principles, we ended up taking our trip with ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
Thu, 7 Dec 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [883]
After the first two treks, we found a confortable place to stay for a couple of days. We wanted to rest before starting the last trek, and we understood that a village festival would happen a few days later. We waited for the celebration... It was the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 | By taroso | Views [1982] | Comments [5]
Sauraha, gateway to the Royal Chitwan National Park lies about eighty kilometres south-west-west of Kathmandu as the kag flies. By road it's a six hour journey. If you add a couple of hours rafting on the Trisuli
River, it's a full day's ... Read more >
Tags: General
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [1345]
It starts out of the suburbs of KTM. We went there with three different minibus (actually, mitsubishi vans). for the last one, i was on the roof with 10 other people...my first bus roof experience.. exciting!! Physically, the trek was was not that ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 | By taroso | Views [1142]
Shakyamuni Buddha, he who was Prince Gautama, and Gyanendra
Bir Bikram Shah Dev, current King of Nepal, have more in common than
just royal blood and birth within Nepali borders: both are seen by Hindus as being incarnations of Vishnu. Avatar or ... Read more >
Tags: General
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [917]
What is trek in Nepal ? walking many days on tracks in mountains, not meeting vehicules all the way, see and meet locals and their culture At first, we don't look for regions crowded with tourists. No Appurna for this time. Tourists are following ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 | By kokoricooo | Views [881] | Comments [2]
We have spent now some time here in Katmandu. This town grew very fast during last 50 years (not so long time ago it was a village). According to the legend and archeology, there was a huge lake where is now Katmandu. It is so flat that we could wonder ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 | By taroso | Views [1227]
I seem to be on the "Eat Whatever the Hell You Feel Like Diet" and it's not
appearing to be doing me major harm. An essential part of this diet is the ingestion of a balanced quantity of junk food. Two classes of this
might, perhaps, ... Read more >
Tags: General
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 | By taroso | Views [3018] | Comments [1]
One advantage of trekking with my guide Shyam was that I could pick up
a little - and I do mean a little - Nepali while on trail, thus putting
my 8 year Linguistics degree to some minor use (well, we also had a
brief Tibetan lesson in Lhasa, but ... Read more >
Tags: General
Tue, 14 Nov 2006 | By taroso | Views [1167]
It was time to get my pre-trip shots, and my doctor had spent quite
a lot of time in Nepal [she has credits for the Health section in a few
Lonely Planets, but not, ironically, the Nepal 6th edition, which is
what I have]. October or November? ... Read more >
Tags: General
Mon, 13 Nov 2006 | By taroso | Views [2035]
Zero "I'm not going to pay someone ten dollars per day to walk in front of me", said my neighbour Sandrine. She lives in a mountainous region in France, and is to the fact au fait with trekking and orienteering. I don't know how ... Read more >
Tags: General
Sun, 5 Nov 2006 | By taroso | Views [2701] | Comments [1]
Sacred Art
Buddhism has a large cosmology, with its six realms (inhabited by
humans, animals, demons, hungry ghosts, demi-gods, and gods), buddhas
(past, present, and future) and boddhisatvas, though whether they're
viewed as genuine entities, ... Read more >
Tags: General
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