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Travel Blogs from Beni, Nepal
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Annapurna Sanctuary Adventure
This is a top pick! ... water and treacherous wet mossy rocks. (I later learned that it had rained continuously for 59 hours: a 30 year record in Nepal.) Despite the weather I was, bizarrely, still enjoying myself. (Bear in mind that it was the incessant Irish rain which ...
Annapurna Circuit - Day 18 - The End
This is a top pick! ... On the last day of the trek, in honour of us actually walking the entire circuit and not wussing out and taking a jeep from Beni, the Himalayan gods smiled and gave us a beautiful start to the day. From Ghorepani in the pre-dawn light we could clearly ...
Day 13, Marpha to Ghasa
This is a top pick! Start - Finish Marpha - Ghasa Altitude - Descent 2598 Metres - 2160 Metres - 438 Metres Distance - 23 Kilometres Sometimes you wake and realise that you feel like shit, especially when you shitting water !!! After a couple of movements, I ...
Day 15, Tatopani to Beni
This is a top pick! ... jeep, which drove for 12 Klms. We were kicked out. We had another jeep to catch, and then 4 Klms later, we arrived in Beni. We bought a ticket, and 6 hours later, we were back in Pokhara, where we had started. The walk had been great. Seeing the ...
Day 12, Kagbeni to Marpha
This is a top pick! Start - Finish Kagbeni - Marpha Altitude - Descent 2776 Metres - 2598 Metres - 178 Metres Distance - 16 Kilometres After being slack for one day, we got back into the routine of getting up early, having breakfast and leaving. As we were ...
Day 1, Pokhara to Bahundanda
This is a top pick! Packed up the night before, we chucked our bags in the bag room and went to sleep. Up really early, we walked to the tourist bus station and jumped on a tourist bus that was going to take us to our starting point of Besisahar. There were only two other ...
Day 2, Bahundanda to Chamje
This is a top pick! Start - Finish Bahundanda - Chamje Alttude - Ascent 1200 Metres - 1436 Metres - 236 Metres Distance - 12 Kilometres We awoke late, as far as trekkers go. When we looked out of our window at 08:00, up on the hill was a hotel full of ...
Trekking and hot springs
Day 1 Local bus from Pokhara reminded me of being in Banaue in the Philippines with winding roads up and down hills, and looking out across at rice terraces. The trek is quite easy going at the start although even when it's cloudy you soon get sweaty ...
Dhorapatan
High cold STOL strip to North West of KTM. 'Famous' for a special breed of dogs. Also took some American hunters here with their guide in hopes of bagging a sheep of the world to add to their collection in ...
Never ending stairs
Today is trekking day. Early breakfast at the hotel and we were ready to go. From Pokhara until Nayapul (1070m), our starting point, it took us 1 hour driving. On the way we saw lots of goats being brought to the villages. In a few days, there will be ...
Cloud Forests of Pink & Red: Himalayan Springtime
... red… the Himalayas in springtime! Instantaneously we knew that we must do another trek, this time through the 'real’ Nepal of lowland fields, Gurung villages and cloud forests with monkeys. On arrival back in Pokhara we had lunch with our ...
All the way up
It was probably around 6.30am when we woke up in Uleri in our pseudo-shelter and once again awaken by the noisy chinless that were taking most of this VEEERY basic lodging. To diminish our grumpiness a few moments after our guide knocks our room with 2 ...
Pohkara and white water rafting
Pohkara is Nepal's second biggest city. There's plenty to do around the town from paragliding to hiking but a lot of people just hang around the lake area and recover from their hiking trips around the Annapurna range. I'd been around the range on my ...
Start placement in village
... I have become friends with they live above my door, oh and lets not forget the famous bed bugs that seem to occupy every bed in Nepal (about 15% of my body is bites right now), if I walk anywhere in the rain (which is everyday) I have to pick the leaches ...
Gorillas!!!!!
Hi everyone, Well its been a crazy couple of days! We drove from Lake Bunyoni in Uganda - (Africas deepest lake) to Kisoro near the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, on boneshaking roads, at even more boneshaking speed. With ...
Safalta ko life
Namaste .. Hopelly it works now because yesterday I didnt manage to sent it and all my writing was in vain. Well there is no sign of Christmas here and for it will be propably the last time on internet this year I want to wish you all the ...
Days 82 to 85 - Trek: Muktinath to Tatopani
... edict that adroitly summarized the overriding Nepali approach to tourism: Together for Tourism. Tourism for Prosperity. Prosperity for Peace. "Naturally Nepal. Once is not enough." was a perfect tag line for their 2011 year of ...
Tikha Dhunga
The plan had been to get up before dawn to climb for an hour up to Poon Hill to watch the famed sunrise. However it was still raining and cloudy so we snuggled up for a few more hours in our cosy sleeping bags. The walk down was very steep though ...
Kalopani
... excitement we had to cross a freezing cold river barefoot so had plenty of adventure. The boys' minds were distracted by a couple of pretty Nepali girls who we dubbed "Miss Nepal" as they had been watching the national qualifying competition on ...
The climb to Poon Hill
Our journey to the top of Poon Hill and through the Himalaya mountains began bright and early on May 12th. Rather than attempt to do it on the ultra cheap using public transit and sans guide, we opted for an all inclusive type package for about $200 each ...
Fossil hunting
I crossed Thorung La with two other friends I met: Aussie Brent and English Matt, both chefs and both a cracking laugh. We then said goodbye to Florian and walked the much less travelled 'other' side. A road has been built over the last few years ...
Annapurna Circuit Trek, Nepal (Week 2)
... as it was not possible to go by road due to avalanches and landslides. We saw one of the highest waterfalls in Nepal and some impressive looking valleys. Siddha was still struggling with his knee but was putting on a brave face. Day 14 - ...
Ghorapani
After enjoying fine weather the monsoon returned with a vengeance as we climbed steeply up (1800m) through torrential rain. The wet also brought leeches which we managed to avoid beyond a few picked off our boots and socks. We were also accosted by ...
Marpha
... with views of distant Tibet which we still miss. We were surprised how tibetan the people and buildings were in this part of Nepal. We visited a small buddhist temple famous for a very old book with gold and silver script, which we were shown by one of ...
3 week trek in Nepal's Himalayas
... would respond to the challenge of sleeping and trekking at high altitude. Although a popular route (the most popular in Nepal), I didn't feel that it was commercial or overcrowded (except at Thorong La, where there's only 2 guesthouses). It's ...
Oh my god, what was I thinking???
We started out this morning from Hille at about 6:30am. I had an early night last night as there were only two other guests at the teahouse - French, and neither of them spoke any English (or at least, they pretended not to). I spent the evening ...
You couldn't make it up!
... !) and running water and it's the earth, fire water combo that makes it so holy. People walk here from all over India and Nepal but times r a changing and on our way up there a helicopter flew right over our heads and then landed and discharged a group of ...
The 'Race for Poon Hill'
I awoke to enjoy tea and breakfast seated outside the lodge where I could admire the view back down the valley with the sun on my face. Today our goal would be the settlement of Ghorepani, from where it would then be another ...
White Water Rafting Down The Kali Gandaki
7:15am we were picked up by Paddle Nepal, the company we had booked our 3 day white water rafting trip with. We met the 6 others who were also on our trip; an Englishman, his Korean wife and her friend and 3 Danish girls. We had also 5 Nepali ...
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